On Thursday 19 Nov 2015 13:56:32 Andrew Haley wrote: > On 11/19/2015 01:03 PM, Simon Farnsworth wrote: > > "sudo -e /etc/hosts", will ... still work > > Hold on, I think I may not be understanding something. If "sudo -e > /etc/hosts" will still work, why won't "sudo emacs /etc/hosts" ? > > Andrew. "sudo -e" creates a temporary file owned by you containing the file contents, then has your editor access it; when your editor exits, the temporary file's contents replace the original file. "sudo emacs" runs emacs as a new user; AIUI, in the current Wayland security model, emacs running as another user cannot access the Wayland server, because it's not the same user. -- Simon Farnsworth -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
