[ILUG] emacs and saving files as root

[A.J.Delaney at brighton.ac.uk]

On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 16:40 +0100, Niall O Broin wrote:
> I've just observed that on certain boxes I have (at least SuSE 9.3, SuSE 8.1 
> and Ubuntu Hoary with xemacs) (x)emacs saving files as root causes those 
> files to be owned by root.
> 
> However, on assorted Red Hat boxes wiyh emacs and xemacs, on OS-X with emacs, 
> saving files as root causes those files to be owned by their original owner, 
> whatever that was. This is the behaviour I'm used to with (x)emacs and is the 
> behaviour I expect, but I can't find out how to force it.
What are the directory permissions?  Are they stickied?

-- 
Aidan Delaney
Lecturer,
School of Computing, Mathematics and Information Sciences,
University of Brighton.
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