Re: Running emacs as root

[Ted Weatherly]

Is there a way to change my environment while executing a command?

Henrik Enberg <henrik.enberg@home.se> wrote in message 
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> tbonemp3@yahoo.com (Ted Weatherly) writes:
> 
> > To run emacs as root, I normally 'su' then 'emacs'.  I'd like to
> > create a script to simplify this.  I try:
> >
> > sudo -u root /bin/sh -c "emacs"
> >
> > ...and I'm able to edit files as root.  But when I run a shell within
> > emacs, my prompt displays as if I'm a regular user (i.e. it shows as
> > "/tmp> " but I want "/tmp# ").  So it appears as if emacs is using the
> > .profile of the regular user.   How do I fix this?  
> 
> sudo doesn't change your environment, you'd have to use su for that.
> 
> > Perhaps there is a better way to launch emacs as root?
> 
> I use tramp.el (see http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/tramp/) to open
> files as root with sudo within the running emacs.  When tramp is
> installed simply do "C-x f /sudo:root@localhost:/path/to/file".