From: Kevin Rodgers <ihs_4664@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: copying in dired with sudo permissions
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 13:21:22 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3FA2C442.7000908@yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: bntp4s$1tf4$1@otis.netspace.net.au
Leo wrote:
> in dired i want to copy file to a directory which only root can write.
>
> in a shell i could do the copying via sudo cp <from> <to>. any idea how
> i can tell dired to use "sudo cp" instead of "cp" and how do i provide
> then the sudo password?
You don't. Instead, you specify the file using ange-ftp or tramp syntax, e.g
/root@localhost:/only-root-could-write-this-file.txt
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Kevin Rodgers
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2003-10-31 13:47 copying in dired with sudo permissions Leo
2003-10-31 20:21 ` Kevin Rodgers [this message]
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