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Re: cope with root and non root personalities?
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David Kastrup |
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Re: cope with root and non root personalities? |
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21 Jun 2002 22:59:27 +0200 |
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rms@gnu.org (Richard Stallman) writes:
> On GNU/Hurd, you can temporarily make your existing Emacs be root.
> On GNU/Linux I guess you have to make two Emacses.
Or use tramp (it's available in current CVS, if you don't want to get
it separately) and edit
/[sum/root@localhost]/whatever
This will start an su session and use it to transfer mmencoded files
into and out of Emacs. Transparently.
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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
Email: David.Kastrup@t-online.de