Subject: bug#32413: 25.2; When run as root, emacs writes dconf files in a non-root user's /run/user/XXX directory

From: Noam Postavsky <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2018 08:28:49 -0400

Vincent Lefevre <[email-masked]> writes:

> Emacs should never create files/directories if the user hasn't
> explicitly asked it to do that, in particular if this is under
> a directory owned by a different user.

Does it help if you ./configure --without-gsettings?

(maybe it should default to off, I'm not sure what gsettings is actually
good for apart from causing bugs, e.g., #25228)