From: Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi>
To: Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs creates emacs.d/ as root when using sudo
Date: Tue, 02 Jul 2019 09:16:00 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87blyddkrj.fsf@iki.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAH8yC8=8GRrPfY_hjv_raozWvmvtrOWEMV2JO5FtHiaNLrinAw@mail.gmail.com> (Jeffrey Walton's message of "Mon, 1 Jul 2019 14:01:58 -0400")
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Jeffrey Walton [2019-07-01 14:01:58-04:00] wrote:
> I think emacs should be creating files in user's $HOME as $SUDO_USER,
> not root. Or, emacs should be creating .emacs.d/ in /root, not user's
> $HOME.
This is about sudo's settings, not Emacs's. See sudo's option "-H" (man
sudo):
-H, --set-home
Request that the security policy set the HOME
environment variable to the home directory specified by
the target user's password database entry. Depending on
the policy, this may be the default behavior.
Or "man sudoers":
always_set_home If enabled, sudo will set the HOME environment vari‐
able to the home directory of the target user (which
is root unless the -u option is used). This effec‐
tively means that the -H option is always implied.
Note that by default, HOME will be set to the home
directory of the target user when the env_reset
option is enabled, so always_set_home only has an
effect for configurations where either env_reset is
disabled or HOME is present in the env_keep list.
This flag is off by default.
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Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-07-01 18:01 Emacs creates emacs.d/ as root when using sudo Jeffrey Walton
2019-07-02 4:21 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-07-02 6:34 ` Andreas Schwab
2019-07-02 15:02 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-07-02 15:27 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-07-02 16:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-07-02 17:16 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-07-02 17:58 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-07-02 6:16 ` Teemu Likonen [this message]
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