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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 21:00:11 +0200 |
Perry Smith <pedz@easesoftware.com> writes:
>> On Jul 8, 2019, at 5:16 PM, Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no> wrote:
>>
>> debian 10.0 "buster", amd64
>> emacs 26.1
Same here but emacs 27.
>>
>> I do /bin/su to change the user to root. HOME is set to /root
>>
>> However emacs still tries to load /home/sb/.emacs
I had the same happen here.
>>
>> 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
Best regards
--
Tomas
- 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
- Re: How to make emacs stop trying to load /home/sb/.emacs after su to root?,
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