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Re: Editing a file as root
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Micha Feigin |
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Re: Editing a file as root |
Date: |
Mon, 15 Dec 2003 19:22:58 +0200 |
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Mutt/1.5.4i |
On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 01:50:12AM +0100, David Kastrup wrote:
> Micha Feigin <michf@post.tau.ac.il> writes:
>
> > On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 10:25:41PM +0100, David Kastrup wrote:
> > > Dan Anderson <dan@mathjunkies.com> 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.
> >
> > Actually reading the tramp documentation it would seem that the correct
> > way to do this is
> > /[su/localhost]/etc/fstab
>
> Then you are either using an outdated tramp or XEmacs or both.
>
its bidi emacs. Its based on the cvs version (2.3.50 iirc).
> --
> David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
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- Editing a file as root, bhiker, 2003/12/14
- Re: Editing a file as root, Dan Anderson, 2003/12/14
- Re: Editing a file as root, David Kastrup, 2003/12/14
- Re: Editing a file as root, Micha Feigin, 2003/12/14
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- Re: Editing a file as root, David Kastrup, 2003/12/14
- Re: Editing a file as root,
Micha Feigin <=
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- Re: Editing a file as root, Benjamin Rutt, 2003/12/15
- Re: Editing a file as root, Micha Feigin, 2003/12/16
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- Re: Editing a file as root, Benjamin Rutt, 2003/12/16
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- Re: Editing a file as root, Kai Grossjohann, 2003/12/17
- Re: Editing a file as root, Sébastien Kirche, 2003/12/15
- Re: Editing a file as root, gebser, 2003/12/15
- Re: Editing a file as root, Piet van Oostrum, 2003/12/17
- Re: Editing a file as root, Kai Grossjohann, 2003/12/17
- Re: Editing a file as root, Kevin Rodgers, 2003/12/18
- Re: Editing a file as root, Kai Grossjohann, 2003/12/18