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Re: letting super user read .emacs


From: Barry Margolin
Subject: Re: letting super user read .emacs
Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2003 14:55:55 GMT

In article <mailman.1011.1065098708.21628.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>,
Kevin Dziulko  <dziulko@klaatu.canisius.edu> wrote:
>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.  

But they allow you to su to each other?  Seems schizophrenic that they're
so draconian about file permissions, while so lenient about su'ing.

>              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).

emacs -q -l /path/to/other/.emacs

The -q option tells it not to try to load the default init file, and -l
option tells it to load that specific file.

-- 
Barry Margolin, barry.margolin@level3.com
Level(3), Woburn, MA
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