Re: letting super user read .emacs

[Kevin Dziulko]

On Thu, 2 Oct 2003, Puff Addison wrote:

> 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.
> 
> 

Perhaps my original message wasn't clear enough. This is the problem. We 
are not allowed to have any permissions for "others" on our home 
directories.  Thank you for your replies, but they won't help me.  What I 
was thinking was to put my .emacs in a directory outside of my home 
directory (that way the directory can have any permits I want).

Thanks again.