Re: Files created with emacs are owned by system

[Tim X]

iainb.forms@googlemail.com writes:

> 1. I'd use chown, get the error message, curse, and then add sudo to
> the front :)
>
> 2. I own the directory the Dummyfile.hs was in
> drwxr-xr-x    20 iainb  iainb      680 Aug  1 15:04 Write a Scheme
> compiler in 48 hours
>
> 3. GNU Emacs 21.2.1
>
> 4. How do you know this?: I press C-x C-f, type in the filename, press
> return, and then use Finder > Get Info or ls -al from a terminal;
> -rw-r--r--    1 root   iainb       8 Aug  1 12:27 Dummyfile.hs
> -rw-r--r--    1 root   iainb       9 Aug  1 15:03 Dummyfile2.hs
>
> 5. How are you launching Emacs?: I open a terminal, type "emacs",
> press return. If I run "whoami", then I'm me (iainb) and not root.
>
> 6. What is this file?: any file I save from Emacs using C-x C-f.
>
> 7. emacs -q:
>  -rw-r--r--    1 root   iainb      10 Aug  1 15:04 Dummyfileq.hs
>
> 8. emacs -Q: unknown option; I also can't find it in the man page.
>
> 9. sudo emacs:
> -rw-r--r--    1 root   iainb       9 Aug  1 15:12 Dummyfilesudo.hs
>
> 10. su -l root
> emacs:
> -rw-r--r--    1 root   iainb       9 Aug  1 15:16 Dummyfilesuroot.hs
>
> and in response to the "use a bulldozer to crack a nut" suggestions ;)
> 11. I'm not rebuilding OSX just for Emacs
> 12. I'm not recursing through every file to change it's ownership
>
>
> Most importantly, (probably) it does seem that emacs is running as
> root
> ps -aux | grep emacs:
> root      1805   0.0 -0.2    48104   4548  p2  S+    7:38PM   0:00.36
> emacs
>
> I have no idea why it's doing this or how to change it. If I quit
> emacs and while in the same terminal run "whoami", I'm still iainb.
>
> Regards,
> Iain

What are the permissions on the emacs binary?

Tim

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