From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: sebastien.kirche.no@spam.free.fr ( =?iso-8859-15?q?S=E9bastien_Kirche?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Editing a file as root Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2003 11:07:47 +0100 Organization: Guest of ProXad - France Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1071656163 17389 80.91.224.253 (17 Dec 2003 10:16:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2003 10:16:03 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 17 11:16:00 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AWYim-0004LV-00 for ; Wed, 17 Dec 2003 11:16:00 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AWZeb-0003zt-SP for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 17 Dec 2003 06:15:45 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!fr.ip.ndsoftware.net!proxad.net!proxad.net!feeder2-1.proxad.net!news3-2.free.fr!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) Emacs/21.3.50 (darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:770DAgWOkkq8oOzy/fkaVjdWMVs= Original-Lines: 24 Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 17 Dec 2003 11:08:38 MET Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 195.25.216.129 Original-X-Trace: 1071655718 news3-2.free.fr 22333 195.25.216.129:50980 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@proxad.net Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:119419 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:15358 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:15358 gebser@speakeasy.net writes: > Yes, this is what I was asking. I just wanted to make sure that the > problem wasn't with the server. For example, servers are often set up > to disallow remote logins to the root account. (From a security > standpoint, this is a very good idea.) Well the "server" is actually the same local machine. So I guess that even if remote login is disabled (not sure it is) it should not interfere with local login from within emacs. Or do i misunderstood and the /su::/some/path acts as a rlogin even on local system ? > > Just a blind guess... perhaps tramp isn't recognizing the remote > system's prompt. In tramp.el is said: "Recognition of the remote shell > prompt is based on the variables `shell-prompt-pattern' and > `tramp-shell-prompt-pattern' which must be set up correctly." I will check for that. Regards, Sébastien Kirche