Subject: bug#36583: 26.1; emacs 26 tries loading original user's .emacs after su to root

From: Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2019 10:46:13 -0400

>> > This is explicitly documented in the manual.
>> > "How Emacs Finds Your Init File".
>> FWIW, I find this behavior very surprising (and dangerous).
> Why is it dangerous?

Because it'll run with full admin privileges the user's ~/.emacs which
was likely not written under the assumption that you have to be very
careful not to mess up the whole system.

        Stefan