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From: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>
To: Thierry Volpiatto <thierry.volpiatto@gmail.com>
Cc: 11194@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#11194: 24.0.95; sudo rm doesn't work with absolute directory paths on the file system
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2012 15:38:34 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <877gxaseud.fsf@gmx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87aa2jr0ck.fsf@gmail.com> (Thierry Volpiatto's message of "Tue,  10 Apr 2012 18:57:31 +0200")

Thierry Volpiatto <thierry.volpiatto@gmail.com> writes:

>> Hi Michael,

Hi Thierry,

>> Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de> writes:
>>
>>> And, btw, people who don't like the current behaviour are free to add
>>>
>>> alias sudo *sudo $*
>> Most people use such an alias because eshell/sudo is not working with
>> commands where files are not involved 
>> e.g "eshell/sudo uname -a" or "eshell/sudo fdisk -l" etc...
>>
>> ==> ssh: connect to host localhost port 22: Connection refused
>>
>> Using default-directory instead of
>> /sudo:user@localhost:<default-directory> (which use ssh port 22!!!!)
>> fix it
>>
>> (let ((default-directory (if (string= host "localhost")
>>                              default-directory
>>                              (format "/sudo:%s@%s:%s" user host dir))))
>>
>> But maybe I missed something?
> And also it is using /bin/sh which is not aware of many system
> maintenance commands mostly used as root with sudo.

Does there exist a corresponding bug report? I'm short in time, but
maybe I could have a look on it later.

Best regards, Michael.





  reply	other threads:[~2012-04-20 13:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-04-07 10:45 bug#11194: 24.0.95; sudo rm doesn't work with absolute directory paths on the file system Cray Elliott
2012-04-08 11:00 ` Michael Albinus
2012-04-09  2:20   ` Stefan Monnier
2012-04-09 18:08     ` Michael Albinus
2012-04-10  1:58       ` Stefan Monnier
2012-04-10  7:07         ` Michael Albinus
2012-04-10 13:01           ` Stefan Monnier
2012-04-10 14:00             ` Michael Albinus
2012-04-10 14:55               ` Stefan Monnier
2012-04-10 15:14                 ` Michael Albinus
2012-04-10 16:23                   ` Stefan Monnier
2012-04-10 16:41                     ` Thierry Volpiatto
2012-04-10 17:07                       ` Thierry Volpiatto
2012-04-10 18:00                       ` Stefan Monnier
2012-04-20 13:35                     ` Michael Albinus
2012-04-21  2:03                       ` Stefan Monnier
2012-04-22 17:47                         ` Michael Albinus
2012-04-24  1:52                           ` Stefan Monnier
2012-04-25  9:32                             ` Michael Albinus
2012-04-10 16:35                   ` Thierry Volpiatto
2012-04-10 16:57                     ` Thierry Volpiatto
2012-04-20 13:38                       ` Michael Albinus [this message]
2012-04-20 20:58                         ` Thierry Volpiatto

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