From: david@adboyd.com (J. David Boyd)
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Customising .init.el for root user
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2013 09:13:15 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m9hizjujfvys.fsf@W0144758.usac.mmm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 871u7woijw.fsf@gmx.co.uk
Johnny <yggdrasil@gmx.co.uk> writes:
> Hi,
>
> Starting emacs as my normal user running a root terminal (via su), I want
> emacs to start with some specific parameters that does not apply when
> running as the normal user. Specifically, I want the color to be
> distinct so that it is obvious which emacs is the root session.
>
> I understand that by default the users init file is used [1]. This
> never worked well for me, defaulting into basic settings, but after
> looking into it and replacing any "~" references with full paths, it
> works as intended.
> However, this gives /all/ the defaults in the user init file, such as
> the color-theme used. I already use the same init file for multiple
> (well, two anyhow) computers and use a check which machine I am on for
> some dedicated settings, e.g.
> ,----
> | (when (string= (system-name) "the other machine")
> | ..run some customisations...
> | )
> `----
> Is there any similar way to check whether the session was started with
> root privileges to set customisations? E.g.
> ,----
> | (when (session-started-as-root)
> | (load-theme 'wheatgrass)
> | )
> `----
> with a 'session-started-as-root' function? Better methods??
>
> I found one way is to default to a root init file by defining an alias
> in the root .bashrc as
> ,----
> | alias emacs="emacs -u root"
> `----
> however it would be nice to have only one init file to keep track of as
> many tweaks are nice to have in all sessions.
>
> Any ideas / good practices?
>
> All the best
>
> Johnny
>
>
> Footnotes:
> [1] (info "(emacs)Find Init")
How about something like this that I saw the basics of on stackoverflow?
(setq whoami-string
(substring
(shell-command-to-string "whoami")
0 -1))
Then you could do
(when (string= (whoami-string) "root")
..run some customisations...
)
Dave
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-06-21 13:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-06-20 16:25 Customising .init.el for root user Johnny
2013-06-21 13:13 ` J. David Boyd [this message]
2013-06-21 13:18 ` Christopher Schmidt
2013-06-21 14:55 ` J. David Boyd
2013-06-21 15:46 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-06-21 16:00 ` J. David Boyd
[not found] ` <mailman.2149.1371830721.22516.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-06-21 16:55 ` Barry Margolin
2013-06-21 17:15 ` J. David Boyd
2013-06-22 13:52 ` Johnny
2013-06-21 19:49 ` Harry Putnam
2013-06-22 14:03 ` Johnny
2013-06-22 21:26 ` Harry Putnam
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