From: Tim Johnson <tim@akwebsoft.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs client doesn't run by root
Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2021 09:39:38 -0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2f231c50-949c-51d6-0824-a6c27c79cb45@akwebsoft.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87pn0j9zwp.fsf@iki.fi>
On 2/28/21 9:00 PM, Teemu Likonen wrote:
> * 2021-02-28 10:10:05-0900, Tim Johnson wrote:
>
>> I have been using the emacs daemon as my system editor.
>> Works fine as user tim, but if I try it as root, I get the following
>> error message:
> Another option is to use "sudoedit" (or "sudo -e") instead of "sudo
> emacsclient". "sudoedit" uses root access to copy the target file to a
> temporary location for the current user. Then it starts editing the file
> with user's default text editor and finally moves the temporary file to
> the original location. This way the editor doesn't run as the root user.
Cool. Thanks!
--
Tim
tj49.com
prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-03-01 18:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-02-28 19:10 Emacs client doesn't run by root Tim Johnson
2021-02-28 20:09 ` Tassilo Horn
2021-02-28 21:54 ` Tim Johnson
2021-03-01 6:00 ` Teemu Likonen
2021-03-01 18:39 ` Tim Johnson [this message]
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