From: tomas@tuxteam.de
To: Tomas Nordin <tomasn@posteo.net>
Cc: Perry Smith <pedz@easesoftware.com>,
help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no>
Subject: Re: How to make emacs stop trying to load /home/sb/.emacs after su to root?
Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2019 22:20:47 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190709202047.GF15938@tuxteam.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87wogr0ybf.fsf@fliptop.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me>
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On Tue, Jul 09, 2019 at 10:04:20PM +0200, Tomas Nordin wrote:
> tomas@tuxteam.de writes:
>
> > On Tue, Jul 09, 2019 at 09:00:11PM +0200, Tomas Nordin wrote:
> >> Perry Smith <pedz@easesoftware.com> writes:
> >
> > [...]
> >
> >> >> How can I make emacs stop loading the original user's .emacs when
> >> >> logged in as root?
> >> >
> >> > Can you do “id” after you do the su? Usually “su - root” is the suggested method.
> >> > The ‘-‘ causes the users environment to get loaded or something. Never looked
> >> > too deep into it.
> >>
> >> After su;
> >>
> >> # id
> >> uid=0(root) gid=0(root) groups=0(root)
> >>
> >> After su - root;
> >>
> >> # id
> >> uid=0(root) gid=0(root) groups=0(root)
> >>
> >> but after this latter way of getting root emacs did not try to load
> >> /home/tomas/.emacs
> >>
> >> Just metooing
> >
> > Have you checked the environment? What does $HOME say? (although the
> > "su -" part lets one expect that the HOME var is set anew: checking
> > won't hurt :-)
>
> echo $HOME gave /root after both su methods
Hm. Was somewhat to be expected. Still... bizarre. You could try to
compare the result of "set" (displays the whole environment) after
both "su" variants: perhaps you find an environment variable which
could explain this behaviour. As a guide you can look up the env
variables relevant to Emacs in the manual; online here [1] [2].
But we don't know (yet) whether an env variable is the culprit
(although it seems compelling...)
Cheers
[1] https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/General-Variables.html#General-Variables
[2] https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Misc-Variables.html#Misc-Variables
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-07-09 20:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-07-08 22:16 How to make emacs stop trying to load /home/sb/.emacs after su to root? Steinar Bang
2019-07-08 23:20 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-07-11 17:59 ` Steinar Bang
2019-07-11 18:09 ` Steinar Bang
2019-07-11 18:24 ` Steinar Bang
2019-07-11 18:41 ` Steinar Bang
2019-07-11 19:03 ` Steinar Bang
2019-07-12 2:56 ` Perry Smith
2019-07-12 16:11 ` Steinar Bang
2019-07-12 16:33 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-07-12 21:41 ` Steinar Bang
2019-07-13 5:30 ` Steinar Bang
2019-07-13 15:04 ` Perry Smith
2019-07-13 18:04 ` Steinar Bang
2019-07-09 0:40 ` Perry Smith
2019-07-09 19:00 ` Tomas Nordin
2019-07-09 19:15 ` tomas
2019-07-09 20:04 ` Tomas Nordin
2019-07-09 20:20 ` tomas [this message]
2019-07-10 14:42 ` Nick Dokos
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