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bug#41628: [PATCH] Allow emacsclient to connect to other user's socket w
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#41628: [PATCH] Allow emacsclient to connect to other user's socket when using -s |
Date: |
Sun, 31 May 2020 18:44:50 +0300 |
> Date: Sun, 31 May 2020 15:51:02 +0200
> From: rabite <rabite@posteo.de>
>
> Since commit 5c0d8bb95bbd5354e6b2cd2e56a91afe4e780759 emacsclient won't
> connect to my usual emacs session when run as root. I use this all the
> time to edit files, combined with "-T /sudo:root@localhost" to handle
> permissions. Using a separate emacs process would be unpractical as it
> would require setting up a whole new emacs configuration and keeping it
> in sync with my main one. I think this is a common use-case for those
> who have an emacs-server running all the time and supporting it makes a
> lot of sense. In principle I see no reason emacsclient should refuse a
> connection that is possible in theory.
>
> It looks like this "feature" has been explicitly disabled, maybe because
> it might triggered unintentionally if running su doesn't set USER or
> something?
The discussion which led to that change is here:
https://lists.gnu.org/r/emacs-devel/2018-11/msg00019.html