Re: Emacs creates emacs.d/ as root when using sudo

[Stefan Monnier]

>     $ sudo emacs /etc/default/motd-news

I'd consider the above as a pilot error.

If you use sudo naively like above, the $HOME is still that of the
invoking user, so you're going to have these kinds of problems with all
kinds of programs (I also consider it a serious security issue because
you'll execute as root the user's ~/.emacs or in other cases it'll be
the user's ~/.bashrc or whatever else, and I'd generally assume that
those files were not written under the assumption that they may be run
as root, so they may introduce all kinds of problems).


        Stefan