From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs creates emacs.d/ as root when using sudo
Date: Tue, 02 Jul 2019 11:02:34 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvd0islbwb.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mvm7e91ndvf.fsf@suse.de> (Andreas Schwab's message of "Tue, 02 Jul 2019 08:34:44 +0200")
>>> $ sudo emacs /etc/default/motd-news
>> I'd consider the above as a pilot error.
>> If you use sudo naively like above, the $HOME is still that of the
>> invoking user,
> It's really a misconfiguration of sudo if it doesn't reset HOME.
Oh, indeed, I was confusing it with `su`.
That confirms it's not a problem on Emacs's side.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-07-02 15:02 UTC|newest]
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 [this message]
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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