Re: Files created with emacs are owned by system

[Joost Kremers]

iainb.forms@googlemail.com wrote:
> 3. GNU Emacs 21.2.1
[...]
> 8. emacs -Q: unknown option; I also can't find it in the man page.

-Q is a fairly new option. perhaps it was only introduced with emacs 22.

> Most importantly, (probably) it does seem that emacs is running as
> root
> ps -aux | grep emacs:
> root      1805   0.0 -0.2    48104   4548  p2  S+    7:38PM   0:00.36
> emacs
>
> I have no idea why it's doing this or how to change it. If I quit
> emacs and while in the same terminal run "whoami", I'm still iainb.

do:

ls -l $(which emacs)

i'm suspecting that your permissions will be set to 'rws' for the owner,
meaning that the binary is suid (i.e. it runs as the owner of the file, in
this case root, not as the user that's actually started the process.)


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