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Re: Emacs creates emacs.d/ as root when using sudo
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Stefan Monnier |
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Re: Emacs creates emacs.d/ as root when using sudo |
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Tue, 02 Jul 2019 11:02:34 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
>>> $ 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,
> It's really a misconfiguration of sudo if it doesn't reset HOME.
Oh, indeed, I was confusing it with `su`.
That confirms it's not a problem on Emacs's side.
Stefan
Re: Emacs creates emacs.d/ as root when using sudo, Teemu Likonen, 2019/07/02