how to find out which user instantiated this emacs process

how to find out which user instantiated this emacs process

[leo]

hi there

on unix usually i instantiate emacs as a normal user, but for special
purposes i instantiate emacs sometimes as root with the same home directory.

in this case i'd like to set the background to red or so... how can i find
out in emacs lisp what user owns this emacs?

thanks, leo

Re: how to find out which user instantiated this emacs process

[Pascal Bourguignon]

"leo" <halloleo@noospaam.myrealbox.com> writes:

> hi there
> 
> on unix usually i instantiate emacs as a normal user, but for special
> purposes i instantiate emacs sometimes as root with the same home directory.
> 
> in this case i'd like to set the background to red or so... how can i find
> out in emacs lisp what user owns this emacs?

Did you really try, or are you asking just to increase the trafic?

(when (= (user-uid) 0) (set-background-color "Red"))

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Re: how to find out which user instantiated this emacs process

[leo]

"Pascal Bourguignon" <spam@thalassa.informatimago.com> wrote in message
news:87n0774m3f.fsf@thalassa.informatimago.com...
> "leo" <halloleo@noospaam.myrealbox.com> writes:
>
> > in this case i'd like to set the background to red or so... how can i
find
> > out in emacs lisp what user owns this emacs?
>
> Did you really try, or are you asking just to increase the trafic?

i looked up (with C-h a) everything containing "user", but couldn't find
anything.

> (when (= (user-uid) 0) (set-background-color "Red"))

thanks a lot! user-uid seems to be a non-user-command.

cheers, leo

Re: how to find out which user instantiated this emacs process

[Joakim Hove]

"leo" <halloleo@noospaam.myrealbox.com> writes:


> i looked up (with C-h a) everything containing "user", but couldn't find
> anything.

M-x apropos gives much more output (including the function
user-uid). 

C-h a only finds *commands* containg "user", whereas M-x apropos finds
functions/variables/commands/...

Joakim

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