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From: lakin@csli.stanford.edu (Fred Lakin)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: "turning on" root privileges in a running emacs
Message-ID: <LAKIN.91Jan11160003@csli.stanford.edu>
Date: 12 Jan 91 00:00:03 GMT
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Organization: Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford U.
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Sometimes in the middle of a session I want to read or modify a file
requiring root privs. At the moment, I have to go to a shell, become
su, and start another emacs. Is there some to momentarily enable (and
later "turn back off") su privs in an emacs started by a regular
user??

tnx, f
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