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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
Cc: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs creates emacs.d/ as root when using sudo
Date: Tue, 02 Jul 2019 17:27:49 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3r2788nii.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mvm7e91ndvf.fsf@suse.de> (Andreas Schwab's message of "Tue, 02 Jul 2019 08:34:44 +0200")

Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> writes:

>>>     $ 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.

But, by default, sudo doesn't (on Ubuntuish systems).

Emacs is somewhat unusual among editors you might fire up as root in
that it might create or write files and directories in $HOME without the
user knowing, and that leads to frustration and makes "# emacs -nw" less
comfortable than it could be.

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
   bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no



  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-07-02 15:27 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
2019-07-02 15:27     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
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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