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Date:      Thu, 19 Mar 2009 06:31:32 +0200
From:      Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
To:        Eirik =?iso-8859-1?Q?=D8verby?= <ltning@anduin.net>
Cc:        freebsd001@pc.jgr.de, freebsd-security@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: emacs installs a lot of 777 directories
Message-ID:  <871vsub0bf.fsf@kobe.laptop>
In-Reply-To: <253C16FF-5287-4941-8DFB-AB07D57E3C90@anduin.net> ("Eirik =?iso-8859-1?Q?=D8verby=22's?= message of "Mon, 16 Mar 2009 20:31:21 %2B0100")
References:  <200903152350.n2FNoGnk006601@pc.jgr.de> <253C16FF-5287-4941-8DFB-AB07D57E3C90@anduin.net>

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On Mon, 16 Mar 2009 20:31:21 +0100, Eirik =D8verby <ltning@anduin.net> wrot=
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> On 16. mars. 2009, at 00.50, freebsd001@pc.jgr.de wrote:
>> Dear Giorgos,
>> thank you for coming back to the emacs issue. I deinstalled
>> emacs by means of pkg_delete -v -d, deleted by hand
>> /usr/local/share/emacs to make sure that nothing is left,
>> logged in as user "nutzer", and did su to root:
>>
>>> id
>> uid=3D1006(nutzer) gid=3D1000(user) groups=3D1000(user),0(wheel)
>>> su
>> Password:
>
> Try 'su -' instead of 'su'.
> There might be some environment issues; I've seen similar behavior
> when making that mistake myself.

This is correct.  `su -' should be preferred when installing stuff :)



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