From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: david@adboyd.com (J. David Boyd) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Customising .init.el for root user Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2013 12:00:35 -0400 Message-ID: References: <871u7woijw.fsf@gmx.co.uk> <874ncra9fp@ch.ristopher.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1371830730 16725 80.91.229.3 (21 Jun 2013 16:05:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2013 16:05:30 +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 Jun 21 18:05:30 2013 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 1Uq3q5-0003w8-7I for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 21 Jun 2013 18:05:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39044 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Uq3q4-0001kz-Qk for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 21 Jun 2013 12:05:28 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50413) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Uq3ps-0001jl-8C for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Jun 2013 12:05:19 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Uq3pp-0002Rz-CL for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Jun 2013 12:05:16 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:42044) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Uq3pp-0002Rn-6J for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Jun 2013 12:05:13 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Uq3pf-0003QV-Qt for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Jun 2013 18:05:04 +0200 Original-Received: from 169.15.137.27 ([169.15.137.27]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 21 Jun 2013 18:05:03 +0200 Original-Received: from david by 169.15.137.27 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 21 Jun 2013 18:05:03 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 15 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 169.15.137.27 User-Agent: Gnus/5.1299999999999999 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (cygwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:ch/PLD2Ui+SWmZMYowhOSnfAUUE= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 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:91645 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier writes: >> Then root is always user id 0? > > Almost: in reality, user-id 0 is the user that has the extra privileges. > It is customarily called "root", but it can also have some other name, > or even several names. > > > Stefan and if you start emacs with a sudo command, then your euid becomes this super-user, #0? Very interesting. Dave