GNU bug report logs - #19477
24.4; Init script from su terminal

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: ibeas <at> gmx.com (Álvar Ibeas)

Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2014 16:38:02 UTC

Severity: minor

Merged with 36583, 36604

Found in version 26.1

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From: ibeas <at> gmx.com (Álvar Ibeas)
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 24.4; Init script from su terminal
Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2014 17:36:58 +0100

Hello,

Working under Debian, when I switch to root using `su', Emacs doesn't
load the init script located in my user's home folder, as the manual
says:

``if you run Emacs from a shell started by `su', Emacs tries to find
your own `.emacs', not that of the user you are currently pretending
to be [...] It gets your user name from the environment variables
`LOGNAME' and `USER'.''

The variables LOGNAME and USER have both the value `root'. The command
`logname' returns instead my own user name.

Is this an Emacs bug?
This bug report was last modified 127 days ago.

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