From: Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: I'am root user, but 'emacs /etc/sudoers' still report Buffer is read-only: #<buffer sudoers> in modeline
Date: Fri, 01 May 2015 03:23:19 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87twvxozug.fsf@debian.uxu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.2062.1430429791.904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Bob Proulx <bob@proulx.com> writes:
> And so we have vipw and visudo which both would have
> originally spawned vi on the respective files.
> But now the vi part of the name of those classic
> tools is used generically to mean edit the file.
> Anything else would require changing the name and
> that would be egregiously breaking scripts and
> things that used the previous name.
No, hands off "visudo"! :)
>> If you are dead set on using Emacs, try
>>
>> sudo EDITOR='/usr/bin/emacs -u USER' visudo
>
> Not necessary when using the typical sudo
> configuration. Really! :-) What does this say
> for you?
>
> $ sudo printenv HOME
Indeed:
/root
Nice catch! I wonder how that happened. Probably my
hacker friends in the FSB. Investigating...
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2015-04-29 6:27 I'am root user, but 'emacs /etc/sudoers' still report Buffer is read-only: #<buffer sudoers> in modeline Show Dont
2015-04-29 8:25 ` Bob Proulx
2015-04-29 8:36 ` tomas
2015-04-29 9:24 ` Alex Kost
2015-04-29 10:33 ` tomas
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2015-04-29 20:08 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-04-29 20:29 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-04-30 21:36 ` Bob Proulx
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2015-05-01 1:23 ` Emanuel Berg [this message]
2015-05-01 2:31 ` Emanuel Berg
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