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bug#1540: emacsclient -t fails under su
From: |
Stefan Monnier |
Subject: |
bug#1540: emacsclient -t fails under su |
Date: |
Fri, 12 Dec 2008 14:02:31 -0500 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) |
> emacs tries to open the tty of the emacsclient process, which
> ttyname (fileno (stdout)) says it's /dev/pts/12
> /dev/pts/12 is owned by user1, and user2 has no access to it
Indeed. You can make it work by letting user2 create another pts for
Emacs to use and then transfer back&forth the commands on one pts to
the other. E.g. user2 runs scren and then emacsclient -t in screen.
Or user2 does "ssh localhost" and then runs emacsclient -t in that
ssh session. Or ...