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Re: letting super user read .emacs


From: Lute Kamstra
Subject: Re: letting super user read .emacs
Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2003 08:08:21 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.1003 (Gnus v5.10.3) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux)

Kin Cho <kin@techie.com> writes:

>> My problem is that when I use the su command to become another
>> user, I am forced to use the other user's .emacs instead of my
>> own.
>
> While su'ed as another user, use "emacs -u your-login".

You may also have to do "chmod o+r .emacs".

  Lute.

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