Re: letting super user read .emacs

[Puff Addison]

Lute Kamstra wrote:

> 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.
>
>  
You will probably also have to do "chmod o+x <home directory> "   for 
this to work.

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