GNU bug report logs - #1540
emacsclient -t fails under su

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Message #30 received at 1540 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: Dan Nicolaescu <dann <at> ics.uci.edu>
Cc: 1540 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
Subject: Re: bug#1540: emacsclient -t fails under su
Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2008 14:02:31 -0500

> emacs tries to open the tty of the emacsclient process, which 
> ttyname (fileno (stdout)) says it's /dev/pts/12
> /dev/pts/12 is owned by user1, and user2 has no access to it

Indeed.  You can make it work by letting user2 create another pts for
Emacs to use and then transfer back&forth the commands on one pts to
the other.  E.g. user2 runs scren and then emacsclient -t in screen.
Or user2 does "ssh localhost" and then runs emacsclient -t in that
ssh session.  Or ...

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