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| From: | Stefan Monnier |
| Subject: | bug#36583: 26.1; emacs 26 tries loading original user's .emacs after su to root |
| Date: | Fri, 12 Jul 2019 10:46:13 -0400 |
| User-agent: | Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
>> > This is explicitly documented in the manual.
>> > "How Emacs Finds Your Init File".
>> FWIW, I find this behavior very surprising (and dangerous).
> Why is it dangerous?
Because it'll run with full admin privileges the user's ~/.emacs which
was likely not written under the assumption that you have to be very
careful not to mess up the whole system.
Stefan
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