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Re: buffer uid
From: |
J-P Theberge |
Subject: |
Re: buffer uid |
Date: |
10 Oct 2003 16:33:00 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 |
Arthur Davis <adavis@torrentnet.com> writes:
> 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)?
Hi,
I use this:
(defun find-file-as-another-user (f u)
(interactive "sFind file: \ns as user: ")
(require 'tramp)
(find-file (concat "/su:" u "@localhost:" f)))
It require tramp
-jp