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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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