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Re: buffer uid


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: buffer uid
Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 18:02:14 GMT
User-agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50

> Is it possible to open a buffer and edit it as a different user?  In
> other words, if I have two user accounts, can I run emacs from one
> account and edit a file owned by the other account (and not writable
> by the account running emacs)?

The Tramp package allows you to do that (as long as you have `su', `sudo'
or `ssh' shell access to the other user).


        Stefan


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