Re: tramp vs. sudo

[Richard Riley <rileyrg@googlemail.com>]

Suvayu Ali <fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com> writes:

> On Tue, 21 Jun 2011 21:00:23 +0200
> Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de> wrote:
>
>> > Its the same here. I just assumed thats how tramp behaves with
>> > sudo.  
>> 
>> I cannot reproduce it locally. I'm running Ubuntu 11.11, and I've
>> tested it with both Emacs 23.2 and 24.0.50, calling "emacs -Q" in
>> both cases.
>> 
>> Could you, please, call Emacs the same way. *Before* you open
>> /sudo:root@localhost:/whatever you should eval 
>> 
>> (setq tramp-verbose 6)
>
> Strange, I can't reproduce this behaviour any more. It has been a long
> time since I used it last (AFAIR sometime in 2010). 


I get prompted twice here when opening a local file as sudo.

e.g

(defun find-alternative-file-with-sudo ()
  "Open current buffer as root!"
  (interactive)
  (when buffer-file-name
    (find-alternate-file
     (concat "/sudo:root@localhost:"
	     buffer-file-name))))

GNU Emacs 23.2.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.20.0) of 2010-12-11
on raven, modified by Debian