From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tim Johnson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs client doesn't run by root Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2021 09:39:38 -0900 Message-ID: <2f231c50-949c-51d6-0824-a6c27c79cb45@akwebsoft.com> References: <72ea7a4c-c9e8-3a93-0ed7-aad5b18ee422@akwebsoft.com> <87pn0j9zwp.fsf@iki.fi> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="32589"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.10.0 To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 01 19:42:38 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1lGnV8-0008Lu-KW for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 01 Mar 2021 19:42:38 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36902 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lGnV7-0000Yq-Lp for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 01 Mar 2021 13:42:37 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:33656) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lGnUI-0000XP-5g for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Mar 2021 13:41:47 -0500 Original-Received: from gateway21.websitewelcome.com ([192.185.45.175]:38865) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lGnUG-0004WH-Iz for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Mar 2021 13:41:45 -0500 Original-Received: from cm16.websitewelcome.com (cm16.websitewelcome.com [100.42.49.19]) by gateway21.websitewelcome.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9CDF4400CFF8B for ; Mon, 1 Mar 2021 12:39:40 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from host2075.hostmonster.com ([67.20.113.97]) by cmsmtp with SMTP id GnSGljQQs5rKQGnSGl7YZI; Mon, 01 Mar 2021 12:39:40 -0600 X-Authority-Reason: nr=8 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=tj49.com; s=default; h=Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-Type:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version :Date:Message-ID:From:References:To:Subject:Sender:Reply-To:Cc:Content-ID: Content-Description:Resent-Date:Resent-From:Resent-Sender:Resent-To:Resent-Cc :Resent-Message-ID:List-Id:List-Help:List-Unsubscribe:List-Subscribe: List-Post:List-Owner:List-Archive; bh=ir7wcqWweJRMusTBVzSoW5P7YRwMuq8+kWDFRQRCDzw=; b=FzbPX+JJolXyj6EIHWqje1E7KB 3mrnwg+SlgZitiPsJXwjC45/2vcDCqSEhY70xsFdm4wd/Lp4vnma1y56rnj3oCaaab1ADhkqM93Lb gkJSvCuiTFG2rBX7ZSUNkPBQo; Original-Received: from tjohnson.mtaonline.net ([64.4.232.191]:40478 helo=[192.168.1.6]) by host2075.hostmonster.com with esmtpsa (TLS1.2) tls TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (Exim 4.93) (envelope-from ) id 1lGnSG-000aEz-05 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Mar 2021 11:39:40 -0700 In-Reply-To: <87pn0j9zwp.fsf@iki.fi> Content-Language: en-US X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - host2075.hostmonster.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - gnu.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - akwebsoft.com X-BWhitelist: no X-Source-IP: 64.4.232.191 X-Source-L: No X-Exim-ID: 1lGnSG-000aEz-05 X-Source-Sender: tjohnson.mtaonline.net ([192.168.1.6]) [64.4.232.191]:40478 X-Source-Auth: tim@tj49.com X-Email-Count: 1 X-Source-Cap: bW9sZG92YXM7bW9sZG92YXM7aG9zdDIwNzUuaG9zdG1vbnN0ZXIuY29t X-Local-Domain: yes Received-SPF: neutral client-ip=192.185.45.175; envelope-from=tim@akwebsoft.com; helo=gateway21.websitewelcome.com X-Spam_score_int: -10 X-Spam_score: -1.1 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.1 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, NICE_REPLY_A=-0.001, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE=-0.0001, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H4=0.001, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_WL=0.001, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_NEUTRAL=0.779 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:128329 Archived-At: 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