RE: buffer uid

[andrew . maguire]

> 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)?

If you have ftp access then you can try and use find-file with a path:

/user@host:/path/to/file

you will then be prompted for a password if necessary.
host can be "localhost" to use the same machine.
You can omit "user@" if you want to login as yourself.

Andrew