* Possible issue with sudo in eshell
@ 2012-04-06 10:32 Thierry Volpiatto
2012-04-06 12:22 ` Sven Joachim
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From: Thierry Volpiatto @ 2012-04-06 10:32 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: emacs-devel
Hi all,
when I run a command with sudo in eshell, e.g "sudo ls /etc"
I must enter a password as expected, but I must reenter this password at
each time I repeat the command. This is annoying.
This works fine in M-x shell and term.
It seem the timestamp is recorded in /var/lib/sudo, but eshell is not
reading it before running command again.
I have no idea how to fix this, any hints welcome.
Thanks.
--
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* Re: Possible issue with sudo in eshell
2012-04-06 10:32 Possible issue with sudo in eshell Thierry Volpiatto
@ 2012-04-06 12:22 ` Sven Joachim
2012-04-06 13:11 ` Tom Willemsen
2012-04-06 16:22 ` Thierry Volpiatto
0 siblings, 2 replies; 5+ messages in thread
From: Sven Joachim @ 2012-04-06 12:22 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Thierry Volpiatto; +Cc: emacs-devel
On 2012-04-06 12:32 +0200, Thierry Volpiatto wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> when I run a command with sudo in eshell, e.g "sudo ls /etc"
> I must enter a password as expected, but I must reenter this password at
> each time I repeat the command. This is annoying.
>
> This works fine in M-x shell and term.
>
> It seem the timestamp is recorded in /var/lib/sudo, but eshell is not
> reading it before running command again.
That's because eshell special cases sudo and uses an internal command
that calls tramp behind the scenes. The result is this:
,----
| ~ $ tty
| /dev/pts/3
| ~ $ sudo tty
| not a tty
| ~ $ /usr/bin/sudo tty
| /dev/pts/3
| ~ $
`----
If sudo is configured with the tty_tickets option (recommended for
security reasons), you'll have to enter the password each time.
> I have no idea how to fix this, any hints welcome.
I tried "alias sudo /usr/bin/sudo", but that worked badly. Any eshell
guru around with better suggestions?
Cheers,
Sven
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* Re: Possible issue with sudo in eshell
2012-04-06 12:22 ` Sven Joachim
@ 2012-04-06 13:11 ` Tom Willemsen
2012-04-06 16:30 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2012-04-06 16:22 ` Thierry Volpiatto
1 sibling, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread
From: Tom Willemsen @ 2012-04-06 13:11 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Sven Joachim; +Cc: emacs-devel
Hey guys,
On Fri 06 Apr 2012 02:22:21 PM CEST, Sven Joachim wrote:
> If sudo is configured with the tty_tickets option (recommended for
> security reasons), you'll have to enter the password each time.
>
> > I have no idea how to fix this, any hints welcome.
>
> I tried "alias sudo /usr/bin/sudo", but that worked badly. Any eshell
> guru around with better suggestions?
I've got the following in my emacs init file:
(fset 'eshell/sudo nil)
This makes it call /usr/bin/sudo instead of `eshell/sudo', but I still
have to enter my password every time I use it.
Cheers,
Tom
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* Re: Possible issue with sudo in eshell
2012-04-06 12:22 ` Sven Joachim
2012-04-06 13:11 ` Tom Willemsen
@ 2012-04-06 16:22 ` Thierry Volpiatto
1 sibling, 0 replies; 5+ messages in thread
From: Thierry Volpiatto @ 2012-04-06 16:22 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Sven Joachim; +Cc: emacs-devel
Hi Sven,
Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> writes:
> On 2012-04-06 12:32 +0200, Thierry Volpiatto wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> when I run a command with sudo in eshell, e.g "sudo ls /etc"
>> I must enter a password as expected, but I must reenter this password at
>> each time I repeat the command. This is annoying.
>>
>> This works fine in M-x shell and term.
>>
>> It seem the timestamp is recorded in /var/lib/sudo, but eshell is not
>> reading it before running command again.
>
> That's because eshell special cases sudo and uses an internal command
> that calls tramp behind the scenes. The result is this:
>
> ,----
> | ~ $ tty
> | /dev/pts/3
> | ~ $ sudo tty
> | not a tty
> | ~ $ /usr/bin/sudo tty
> | /dev/pts/3
> | ~ $
> `----
I see, thanks for these infos.
The timestamp is recorded here in "/var/lib/sudo/thierry/3" which would
correspond with /dev/pts/3.
I am already using an alias for sudo:
alias sudo *sudo -p Password: $*
and with it, "sudo tty" always return "/dev/pts/3", but I have anyway to
reenter password at each time.
> If sudo is configured with the tty_tickets option (recommended for
> security reasons), you'll have to enter the password each time.
>
>> I have no idea how to fix this, any hints welcome.
>
> I tried "alias sudo /usr/bin/sudo", but that worked badly.
I think this is same as using "*sudo" which work badly too.
> Any eshell guru around with better suggestions?
--
Thierry
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* Re: Possible issue with sudo in eshell
2012-04-06 13:11 ` Tom Willemsen
@ 2012-04-06 16:30 ` Thierry Volpiatto
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From: Thierry Volpiatto @ 2012-04-06 16:30 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: emacs-devel
Tom Willemsen <tom@ryuslash.org> writes:
> Hey guys,
>
> On Fri 06 Apr 2012 02:22:21 PM CEST, Sven Joachim wrote:
>
> > If sudo is configured with the tty_tickets option (recommended for
> > security reasons), you'll have to enter the password each time.
> >
> > > I have no idea how to fix this, any hints welcome.
> >
> > I tried "alias sudo /usr/bin/sudo", but that worked badly. Any eshell
> > guru around with better suggestions?
>
> I've got the following in my emacs init file:
>
> (fset 'eshell/sudo nil)
>
> This makes it call /usr/bin/sudo instead of `eshell/sudo', but I still
> have to enter my password every time I use it.
In eshell you can always use the original command (not its lisp
counterpart) by prefixing with "*" e.g for sudo you can use *sudo to run
/usr/bin/sudo, for grep *grep etc...
--
Thierry
Get my Gnupg key:
gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 59F29997
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