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Re: Running emacs as root
From: |
Henrik Enberg |
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Re: Running emacs as root |
Date: |
Wed, 07 Jan 2004 20:33:29 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) |
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".