From: Will Parsons <varro@nodomain.invalid>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: mismatch between what Emacs considers read-only and file permissions
Date: 4 Feb 2015 20:19:32 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <slrnmd4vmk.3b2.varro@anukis.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.19282.1423080028.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> From: Will Parsons <varro@nodomain.invalid>
>> Date: 4 Feb 2015 19:53:33 GMT
>
>> My real question is the second circumstance, where a file with the
>> Unix write bit set is marked read-only by Emacs. Since it only occurs
>> when I log in directly as root in console mode (which I don't do that
>> often), I can live with that too, using the same method. By *why*
>> does it happen?
>
> Because using sudo doesn't make you root, it only gives you root's
> security privileges.
Who said anything about using sudo? I clearly stated that I was
logging in directly as root to a console.
--
Will
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-02-04 20:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-02-04 17:12 mismatch between what Emacs considers read-only and file permissions Will Parsons
2015-02-04 19:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.19279.1423076671.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-02-04 19:53 ` Will Parsons
2015-02-04 20:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.19282.1423080028.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-02-04 20:19 ` Will Parsons [this message]
2015-02-05 13:24 ` Stefan Monnier
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