From: Tomas Nordin <tomasn@posteo.net>
To: Perry Smith <pedz@easesoftware.com>, Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to make emacs stop trying to load /home/sb/.emacs after su to root?
Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2019 21:00:11 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8736jf2fus.fsf@fliptop.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48B6632F-49C3-4C40-A559-D839FEE11061@easesoftware.com>
Perry Smith <pedz@easesoftware.com> writes:
>> On Jul 8, 2019, at 5:16 PM, Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no> wrote:
>>
>> debian 10.0 "buster", amd64
>> emacs 26.1
Same here but emacs 27.
>>
>> I do /bin/su to change the user to root. HOME is set to /root
>>
>> However emacs still tries to load /home/sb/.emacs
I had the same happen here.
>>
>> 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
Best regards
--
Tomas
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-07-09 19:00 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 [this message]
2019-07-09 19:15 ` tomas
2019-07-09 20:04 ` Tomas Nordin
2019-07-09 20:20 ` tomas
2019-07-10 14:42 ` Nick Dokos
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