From: Thierry Volpiatto <thierry.volpiatto@gmail.com>
To: 11194@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#11194: 24.0.95; sudo rm doesn't work with absolute directory paths on the file system
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2012 18:57:31 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87aa2jr0ck.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877gxrbz1p.fsf@rbdash.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me>
Thierry Volpiatto <thierry.volpiatto@gmail.com> writes:
> Hi Michael,
>
> Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de> writes:
>
>> And, btw, people who don't like the current behaviour are free to add
>>
>> alias sudo *sudo $*
> Most people use such an alias because eshell/sudo is not working with
> commands where files are not involved
> e.g "eshell/sudo uname -a" or "eshell/sudo fdisk -l" etc...
>
> ==> ssh: connect to host localhost port 22: Connection refused
>
> Using default-directory instead of
> /sudo:user@localhost:<default-directory> (which use ssh port 22!!!!)
> fix it
>
> (let ((default-directory (if (string= host "localhost")
> default-directory
> (format "/sudo:%s@%s:%s" user host dir))))
>
> But maybe I missed something?
And also it is using /bin/sh which is not aware of many system
maintenance commands mostly used as root with sudo.
--
Thierry
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-04-10 16:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-04-07 10:45 bug#11194: 24.0.95; sudo rm doesn't work with absolute directory paths on the file system Cray Elliott
2012-04-08 11:00 ` Michael Albinus
2012-04-09 2:20 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-04-09 18:08 ` Michael Albinus
2012-04-10 1:58 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-04-10 7:07 ` Michael Albinus
2012-04-10 13:01 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-04-10 14:00 ` Michael Albinus
2012-04-10 14:55 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-04-10 15:14 ` Michael Albinus
2012-04-10 16:23 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-04-10 16:41 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2012-04-10 17:07 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2012-04-10 18:00 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-04-20 13:35 ` Michael Albinus
2012-04-21 2:03 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-04-22 17:47 ` Michael Albinus
2012-04-24 1:52 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-04-25 9:32 ` Michael Albinus
2012-04-10 16:35 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2012-04-10 16:57 ` Thierry Volpiatto [this message]
2012-04-20 13:38 ` Michael Albinus
2012-04-20 20:58 ` Thierry Volpiatto
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