Questions tagged [root]
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How to open serial-port with root privileges
When I try to open /dev/ttyUSB0 with serial-term, following permission error shows:
Opening serial port: Permission denied, /dev/ttyUSB0
I know I can add my user to a group that has access to /dev/...
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Trying to edit/save file with root privilege fails with "Copying directly failed, see buffer '*tramp/sudo root @HOST*'
I have done this a ton of times in the past 10 months or so that I have been using Emacs (which I have quickly come to love, by the way) and never had a problem. No clue what I changed or how, but ...
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How to avoid using auth-sources when editing with sudo?
When I invoke crux-sudo-edit, Emacs hangs forever with the following message:
Decrypting /home/$USER/.authinfo.gpg...0%
until I press C-g, then it asks:
Passphrase for symmetric encryption for /home/$...
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How to run process in administrative mode from Emacs?
I've been using powershell.el in MS Windows Emacs, but I sometimes want
to be administrative mode so that I can do software installation via
chocolatey, etc.
Is there any way to call shell command, ...
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How do I open a non-readable file from inside emacs when I opened emacs as a regular user?
The question pretty much says it all. I opened emacs as a regular user and am trying to edit something in the /etc/ folder (I know this is dangerous etc. etc.)
How can I do this?
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How to disable auto-save in emacs only for files opened as root
I want to use emacs auto-save feature with tramp, but only for file that I don't open using sudo. My current configuration, based on the tramp documentation, looks like this:
;;;;;;;; BAKUCP ;;;;;;;;
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Edit file as root over when already using TRAMP
Right now, I have the following in my init
(defun my-edit-file-as-root ()
"Find file as root"
(interactive)
(find-alternate-file (concat "/su:root@localhost:" buffer-file-name)))
(defun my-...
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Cannot edit a file as root if ~/.authinfo.gpg file exists
I got ~/.authinfo.gpg to store my multiple email accounts for gnus, but if ~/.authinfo.gpg exists, the tramp won't work. It will always say:
Decrypting /home/chz/.authinfo.gpg...done
Emacs won't ...
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