From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Editing a file as root Date: 14 Dec 2003 22:25:41 +0100 Organization: Organization?!? Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1071437831 20517 80.91.224.253 (14 Dec 2003 21:37:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2003 21:37:11 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Dec 14 22:37:08 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AVdvI-0004iT-00 for ; Sun, 14 Dec 2003 22:37:08 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AVeol-00067d-65 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 14 Dec 2003 17:34:27 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!p3ee20b95.dip.t-dialin.NET!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 20 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: p3ee20b95.dip.t-dialin.net (62.226.11.149) Original-X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de 1071437141 4039913 62.226.11.149 ([198409]) X-Face: 2FEFf>]>q>2iw=B6, xrUubRI>pR&Ml9=ao@P@i)L:\urd*t9M~y1^:+Y]'C0~{mAl`oQuAl \!3KEIp?*w`|bL5qr,H)LFO6Q=qx~iH4DN; i"; /yuIsqbLLCh/!U#X[S~(5eZ41to5f%E@'ELIi$t^ Vc\LWP@J5p^rst0+('>Er0=^1{]M9!p?&:\z]|;&=NP3AhB!B_bi^]Pfkw User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:119312 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 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 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:15251 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:15251 Dan Anderson writes: > bhiker@free.fr writes: > > > To edit a file as root, do I have to start another emacs ? > > Start emacs under a root shell or after suing (or sudoing emacs) and > you'll start emacs running with root permissions. If you have tramp installed (like the CVS Emacs has by default), you can just edit the file /su::/etc/fstab (for example), Emacs will ask you for the root password, spawn a root shell and use a pipe to it to send files back and forth transparently. tramp is available as a separate package, too, if you don't like using developer Emacsen. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum