emacs installs a lot of 777 directories

[Giorgos Keramidas]

On Fri, 20 Mar 2009 01:49:29 +1100 (EST), Ian Smith <smithi at nimnet.asn.au> wrote:
>On Thu, 19 Mar 2009, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
>> This is correct.  `su -' should be preferred when installing stuff :)
>
> Absolutely - but I can't find where it(7) actually says that?

It's more or less a rite of passage for FreeBSD admins, like "don't run
`rm -fr /' if you are unsure of what it does".  For a better reason see
the post by Nikos Ntarmos and my reply to that :-)