From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Nordl=F6w?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: sudo command with minibuffer password prompt Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 05:59:19 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <468a9f05-73cf-4c5b-9d91-0bc7a1d29b54@g12g2000vbl.googlegroups.com> References: <87aaxj3wag.fsf@informatimago.com> <4d6a9376-9b3b-4baf-b967-7ae87790d0cc@1g2000vbm.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1260976965 19468 80.91.229.12 (16 Dec 2009 15:22:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 15:22:45 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 16 16:22:38 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1NKvi1-0001t6-KK for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 16 Dec 2009 16:22:37 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:56388 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NKvi1-0007ru-8v for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 16 Dec 2009 10:22:37 -0500 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!usenet.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!g12g2000vbl.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 10 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 150.227.15.253 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1260971959 27487 127.0.0.1 (16 Dec 2009 13:59:19 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 13:59:19 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: g12g2000vbl.googlegroups.com; posting-host=150.227.15.253; posting-account=ytJKAgoAAAA1tg4ScoRszebXiIldA5vg User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-Via: 1.1 ip1-w.foi.se:8080 (IronPort-WSA/6.3.0-604) X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; sv-SE; rv:1.9.1.7pre) Gecko/20091212 Ubuntu/9.10 (karmic) Shiretoko/3.5.7pre, gzip(gfe), gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:175603 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:70678 Archived-At: > In both Vanilla Emacs 22 and 23 CVS > =A0 (require 'tramp) > =A0 (shell-command "sudo touch ~/.emacs") > fails with the message > =A0 sudo: no tty present and no askpass program specified What I really want to do is to spawn an install using apt-get install from within emacs. /Nordl=F6w