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Re: Customising .init.el for root user
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J. David Boyd |
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Re: Customising .init.el for root user |
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Fri, 21 Jun 2013 12:00:35 -0400 |
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Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>> Then root is always user id 0?
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> 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.
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> Stefan
and if you start emacs with a sudo command, then your euid becomes this
super-user, #0? Very interesting.
Dave
Re: Customising .init.el for root user, Harry Putnam, 2013/06/21