Re: open files as root

[Thierry Volpiatto <thierry.volpiatto@gmail.com>]

Hi Henry,
you can use a function like this:

,----
| (defun find-file-as-root (file)
|   (interactive "fFindFileAsRoot: ")
|   (find-file (concat "/su::" (expand-file-name file))))
`----

Replace /su: by /sudo: if you are a sudo user (Debian?)

henry atting <nsmp_01@online.de> writes:

> On Sa, Aug 29 2009, David Kastrup wrote:
>
>> henry atting <nsmp_01@online.de> writes:
>>
>>> Is there another way as with tramp to open files as root within emacs?
>>
>> No.
>>
>>> (Since I am sure that tramp and I never will be friends in this life)
>>
>> Partners is all you need.
>
> Okay, tramp won, I switched from zsh (which impressing functionality I
> don't use anyway) back to bash.
>
> (I now the appropriate lines which are to add to .zshrc, but this time
> they don't work – another time they did.)
>
> henry

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