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Re: cope with root and non root personalities?


From: David Kastrup
Subject: Re: cope with root and non root personalities?
Date: 21 Jun 2002 22:59:27 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50

rms@gnu.org (Richard Stallman) writes:

> On GNU/Hurd, you can temporarily make your existing Emacs be root.
> On GNU/Linux I guess you have to make two Emacses.

Or use tramp (it's available in current CVS, if you don't want to get
it separately) and edit
/[sum/root@localhost]/whatever

This will start an su session and use it to transfer mmencoded files
into and out of Emacs.  Transparently.

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
Email: David.Kastrup@t-online.de



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