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Re: Running emacs as root
From: |
Ted Weatherly |
Subject: |
Re: Running emacs as root |
Date: |
7 Jan 2004 19:54:27 -0800 |
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".