Re: Customising .init.el for root user

[Barry Margolin]

In article <mailman.2149.1371830721.22516.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>,
 david@adboyd.com (J. David Boyd) wrote:

> Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
> 
> >> Then root is always user id 0?
> >
> > Almost: in reality, user-id 0 is the user that has the extra privileges.
> > It is customarily called "root", but it can also have some other name,
> > or even several names.
> >
> >
> >         Stefan
> 
> and if you start emacs with a sudo command, then your euid becomes this
> super-user, #0?  Very interesting.

Yes. There are places in the kernel where it does things like

if (eff_uid == 0 || check_access(...))

The superuser is defined as the user with UID 0.

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Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
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