From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas Schwab Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs creates emacs.d/ as root when using sudo Date: Tue, 02 Jul 2019 08:34:44 +0200 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="230282"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.2.90 (gnu/linux) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 02 09:21:35 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hiD6a-000xiq-4k for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 02 Jul 2019 09:21:32 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49920 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hiD6Y-00069z-VM for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 02 Jul 2019 03:21:30 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:34528) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hiCNN-0001pi-6P for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Jul 2019 02:34:50 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hiCNL-000672-BW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Jul 2019 02:34:48 -0400 Original-Received: from mx2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:53002 helo=mx1.suse.de) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hiCNL-00066m-2l for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Jul 2019 02:34:47 -0400 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at test-mx.suse.de Original-Received: from relay2.suse.de (unknown [195.135.220.254]) by mx1.suse.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id EAF4BAD3A; Tue, 2 Jul 2019 06:34:45 +0000 (UTC) X-Yow: Somewhere in Tenafly, New Jersey, a chiropractor is viewing ``Leave it to Beaver''! In-Reply-To: (Stefan Monnier's message of "Tue, 02 Jul 2019 00:21:38 -0400") X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x (no timestamps) [generic] X-Received-From: 195.135.220.15 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:238291 Archived-At: On Jul 02 2019, Stefan Monnier wrote: >> $ 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. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SUSE Labs, schwab@suse.de GPG Key fingerprint = 0196 BAD8 1CE9 1970 F4BE 1748 E4D4 88E3 0EEA B9D7 "And now for something completely different."