Re: How to make emacs stop trying to load /home/sb/.emacs after su to root?

[tomas]

On Tue, Jul 09, 2019 at 10:04:20PM +0200, Tomas Nordin wrote:
> tomas@tuxteam.de writes:
> 
> > On Tue, Jul 09, 2019 at 09:00:11PM +0200, Tomas Nordin wrote:
> >> Perry Smith <pedz@easesoftware.com> writes:
> >
> > [...]
> >
> >> >> How can I make emacs stop loading the original user's .emacs when
> >> >> logged in as root?
> >> >
> >> > Can you do “id” after you do the su?  Usually “su - root” is the 
> >> > suggested method.
> >> > The ‘-‘ causes the users environment to get loaded or something.  Never 
> >> > looked
> >> > too deep into it.
> >> 
> >> After su;
> >> 
> >> # id
> >> uid=0(root) gid=0(root) groups=0(root)
> >> 
> >> After su - root;
> >> 
> >> # id
> >> uid=0(root) gid=0(root) groups=0(root)
> >> 
> >> but after this latter way of getting root emacs did not try to load
> >> /home/tomas/.emacs
> >> 
> >> Just metooing
> >
> > Have you checked the environment? What does $HOME say? (although the
> > "su -" part lets one expect that the HOME var is set anew: checking
> > won't hurt :-)
> 
> echo $HOME gave /root after both su methods

Hm. Was somewhat to be expected. Still... bizarre. You could try to
compare the result of "set" (displays the whole environment) after
both "su" variants: perhaps you find an environment variable which
could explain this behaviour. As a guide you can look up the env
variables relevant to Emacs in the manual; online here [1] [2].

But we don't know (yet) whether an env variable is the culprit
(although it seems compelling...)

Cheers

[1] 
https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/General-Variables.html#General-Variables
[2] 
https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Misc-Variables.html#Misc-Variables

-- t

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