From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: I'am root user, but 'emacs /etc/sudoers' still report Buffer is read-only: # in modeline Date: Fri, 01 May 2015 03:23:19 +0200 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <87twvxozug.fsf@debian.uxu> References: <819c0a76-13fb-4d38-baa3-8ca429e8cf31@googlegroups.com> <87618e8zq4.fsf@debian.uxu> <87383iu18y.fsf@debian.uxu> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1430443219 1487 80.91.229.3 (1 May 2015 01:20:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 1 May 2015 01:20:19 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri May 01 03:20:19 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ynzco-0004Kj-3A for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 01 May 2015 03:20:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46405 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ynzcn-0005uX-Dm for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 30 Apr 2015 21:20:17 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.kjsl.com!feeder.erje.net!us.feeder.erje.net!newsfeed.fsmpi.rwth-aachen.de!newsfeed.straub-nv.de!news.mixmin.net!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 32 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: feB02bRejf23rfBm51Mt7Q.user.speranza.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:5jBBgYUblkB3+E6kdWmf1COfu5w= Mail-Copies-To: never Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:211833 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:104116 Archived-At: Bob Proulx 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... -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573