Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!bywater!arnor!arnor!marc From: marc@arnor.uucp Newsgroups: comp.emacs Subject: Re: "turning on" root privileges in a running emacs Message-ID: Date: 16 Jan 91 13:00:43 GMT References: Sender: news@arnor.uucp (NNTP News Poster) Organization: IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, New York Lines: 13 In-Reply-To: ange@hplb.hpl.hp.com's message of 15 Jan 91 08:49:37 GMT This could be implemented if someone wanted to by the following scheme. You start emacs with root privs. It sets its effective uid/gid back to the user's. Then, commands which wanted temporary root privs could switch the process to root, do there thing, and switch back. My solution is to run a seperate emacs, normally iconified, started from root. The window is white on a red background, so I won't accidently use it. -- Marc Auslander