From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Steinar Bang Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to make emacs stop trying to load /home/sb/.emacs after su to root? Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2019 23:41:57 +0200 Message-ID: <86ims7vska.fsf@dod.no> References: <864l3w18ae.fsf@dod.no> <86bly0xxit.fsf@dod.no> <867e8oxx2q.fsf@dod.no> <3D7E0823-F1A4-4C32-8177-143BF1736B6C@easesoftware.com> <86muhjw7ub.fsf@dod.no> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="32458"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.2 (windows-nt) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 12 23:56:39 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@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 1hm3Ww-0008GG-7n for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 12 Jul 2019 23:56:38 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52432 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hm3Iw-0003QF-RO for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 12 Jul 2019 17:42:10 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:52526) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hm3Is-0003Hr-8Y for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Jul 2019 17:42:07 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hm3Iq-0004uA-Po for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Jul 2019 17:42:06 -0400 Original-Received: from cadalora.default.sbang.uk0.bigv.io ([46.43.15.90]:44058 helo=cadalora.bang.priv.no) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hm3In-0004nL-T3 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Jul 2019 17:42:02 -0400 Original-Received: from mccoy (cm-84.212.50.160.getinternet.no [84.212.50.160]) by cadalora.bang.priv.no (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 1EDF9CDF2E for ; Fri, 12 Jul 2019 22:41:56 +0100 (BST) In-Reply-To: (Stefan Monnier's message of "Fri, 12 Jul 2019 12:33:52 -0400") X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 46.43.15.90 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:121166 Archived-At: >>>>> Stefan Monnier : > I can't find any relevant change in Emacs in that timeframe. > OTOH it seems that the `su` that comes with Debian may have changed Hm... so I may have been barking up the wrong tree...? > between Debian 9 and Debian 10 (tho whether you see the change or not > might depend on whether you did an upgrade or a fresh install). > https://wiki.debian.org/NewInBuster says: > The `su` command in buster is provided by the `util-linux` source > package, instead of the `shadow` source package, and no longer alters > the `PATH` variable by default. (I didn't even think about su changing. It's so basic, it's just part of the background) > the change mentioned doesn't explain the difference you're seeing, but > maybe this other `su` has other changes (w.r.t $LOGNAME and $USER) > which do. Thanks for the pointer. I will dig down and report back. > Stefan "who always uses `su -`" Ah well... old habits are so hard to break. :-) Thanks!