From: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>
To: Jonathan Groll <lists@groll.co.za>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Tramp multi-hop on localhost: su:sudo
Date: Sun, 07 Jun 2009 18:54:48 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ljo4q90n.fsf@gmx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090518101805.GD26546@groll.co.za> (Jonathan Groll's message of "Mon, 18 May 2009 12:18:05 +0200")
Jonathan Groll <lists@groll.co.za> writes:
> On OS X (perhaps not unwarranted) I'm too afraid to let my regular
> user have sudo rights, so if I want to edit a file as root, I need to
> first su to another user account (that is in the sudoers file) and
> then sudo to root.
>
> All works well except for tramp. I can su and edit files that belong
> to another user, but still haven't worked out how to get multihop to
> the root user working.
>
> I've read the manual, on other hosts I can use tramp multihop to first
> ssh into another host and then sudo to root (eg. ubuntu boxes), but
> still haven't managed to get the > su> sudo hop working on my mac.
>
> How do I do this? Is it possible even on the localhost?
I would do (untested)
(add-to-list 'tramp-default-proxies-alist
'("\\`localhost\\'" "\\`root\\'" "/su:otheruser@%h:"))
Then you can apply "C-x C-f /sudo:root@localhost:".
> Many thanks,
> Jonathan
Best regards, Michael.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-06-07 16:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-05-18 10:18 Tramp multi-hop on localhost: su:sudo Jonathan Groll
2009-05-26 19:47 ` Michael Albinus
2009-06-07 16:54 ` Michael Albinus [this message]
2009-06-08 21:57 ` Jonathan Groll
2009-06-09 4:08 ` Michael Albinus
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