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Re: How to make emacs stop trying to load /home/sb/.emacs after su to ro
From: |
Tomas Nordin |
Subject: |
Re: How to make emacs stop trying to load /home/sb/.emacs after su to root? |
Date: |
Tue, 09 Jul 2019 22:04:20 +0200 |
tomas@tuxteam.de writes:
> On Tue, Jul 09, 2019 at 09:00:11PM +0200, Tomas Nordin wrote:
>> Perry Smith <pedz@easesoftware.com> writes:
>
> [...]
>
>> >> How can I make emacs stop loading the original user's .emacs when
>> >> logged in as root?
>> >
>> > Can you do “id” after you do the su? Usually “su - root” is the suggested
>> > method.
>> > The ‘-‘ causes the users environment to get loaded or something. Never
>> > looked
>> > too deep into it.
>>
>> After su;
>>
>> # id
>> uid=0(root) gid=0(root) groups=0(root)
>>
>> After su - root;
>>
>> # id
>> uid=0(root) gid=0(root) groups=0(root)
>>
>> but after this latter way of getting root emacs did not try to load
>> /home/tomas/.emacs
>>
>> Just metooing
>
> Have you checked the environment? What does $HOME say? (although the
> "su -" part lets one expect that the HOME var is set anew: checking
> won't hurt :-)
echo $HOME gave /root after both su methods
>
> Cheers
> -- t
- Re: How to make emacs stop trying to load /home/sb/.emacs after su to root?, (continued)
- Re: How to make emacs stop trying to load /home/sb/.emacs after su to root?, Perry Smith, 2019/07/11
- Re: How to make emacs stop trying to load /home/sb/.emacs after su to root?, Steinar Bang, 2019/07/12
- Re: How to make emacs stop trying to load /home/sb/.emacs after su to root?, Stefan Monnier, 2019/07/12
- Re: How to make emacs stop trying to load /home/sb/.emacs after su to root?, Steinar Bang, 2019/07/12
- Re: How to make emacs stop trying to load /home/sb/.emacs after su to root?, Steinar Bang, 2019/07/13
- Re: How to make emacs stop trying to load /home/sb/.emacs after su to root?, Perry Smith, 2019/07/13
- Re: How to make emacs stop trying to load /home/sb/.emacs after su to root?, Steinar Bang, 2019/07/13
Re: How to make emacs stop trying to load /home/sb/.emacs after su to root?, Perry Smith, 2019/07/08