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From: Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Emacs creates emacs.d/ as root when using sudo
Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2019 14:01:58 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAH8yC8=8GRrPfY_hjv_raozWvmvtrOWEMV2JO5FtHiaNLrinAw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

Hi Everyone,

I think this is unexpected behavior:

    $ sudo apt-get install emacs-nox
    $ sudo emacs /etc/default/motd-news
    $ ls -Al ~ | grep emacs
    $ drwx------  2 root    root     4096 Jul  1 13:56 .emacs.d

Then, when I use emacs as non-sudo, I am nagged with:

    Warning (initialization): Unable to access `user-emacs-directory'
(~/.emacs.d/)

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.

Jeff



             reply	other threads:[~2019-07-01 18:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-07-01 18:01 Jeffrey Walton [this message]
2019-07-02  4:21 ` Emacs creates emacs.d/ as root when using sudo 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

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