From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs creates emacs.d/ as root when using sudo Date: Tue, 02 Jul 2019 19:29:26 +0300 Message-ID: <8336joe6xl.fsf@gnu.org> References: Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="109834"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" Cc: schwab@suse.de, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Lars Ingebrigtsen Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 02 20:32:19 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hiNZi-000SPy-Tw for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 02 Jul 2019 20:32:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56184 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hiNZh-0003AG-TN for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 02 Jul 2019 14:32:17 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:48761) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hiLf3-0005eQ-2T for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Jul 2019 12:29:41 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:52065) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hiLf2-0008J5-8Q; Tue, 02 Jul 2019 12:29:40 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=3989 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1hiLf1-0005d7-Jp; Tue, 02 Jul 2019 12:29:40 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Lars Ingebrigtsen on Tue, 02 Jul 2019 17:27:49 +0200) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:238301 Archived-At: > From: Lars Ingebrigtsen > Date: Tue, 02 Jul 2019 17:27:49 +0200 > Cc: Stefan Monnier , emacs-devel@gnu.org > > Emacs is somewhat unusual among editors you might fire up as root in > that it might create or write files and directories in $HOME without the > user knowing Doesn't the shell (e.g., Bash) do the same by putting there .bash_history etc.?