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From: David Kastrup <David.Kastrup@t-online.de>
Subject: Re: cope with root and non root personalities?
Date: 21 Jun 2002 22:59:27 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <x53cvgz6ts.fsf@tupik.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 200206211630.g5LGU7a21070@aztec.santafe.edu

rms@gnu.org (Richard Stallman) writes:

> On GNU/Hurd, you can temporarily make your existing Emacs be root.
> On GNU/Linux I guess you have to make two Emacses.

Or use tramp (it's available in current CVS, if you don't want to get
it separately) and edit
/[sum/root@localhost]/whatever

This will start an su session and use it to transfer mmencoded files
into and out of Emacs.  Transparently.

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
Email: David.Kastrup@t-online.de

  reply	other threads:[~2002-06-21 20:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-06-18 17:09 Feature request: share search ring amongst emacses Dan Jacobson
2002-06-20 14:33 ` Richard Stallman
2002-06-20 15:01   ` Simon Josefsson
2002-06-20 23:32   ` cope with root and non root personalities? Dan Jacobson
2002-06-21  7:03     ` David Kastrup
2002-06-21 16:30     ` Richard Stallman
2002-06-21 20:59       ` David Kastrup [this message]
2002-06-21 14:14   ` Feature request: share search ring amongst emacses Mario Lang
2002-06-21 16:04     ` Andreas Schwab

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