Re: SU commands from Emacs

[Dieter Wilhelm <dieter@duenenhof-wilhelm.de>]

David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> writes:

> Dieter Wilhelm <dieter@duenenhof-wilhelm.de> writes:
>
>> Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de> writes:
>>
>>> Dieter Wilhelm <dieter@duenenhof-wilhelm.de> writes:
>>>
>>>> Yes, lately I stumbled over a find-grep in /etc.  How could this be
>>>> done with root privileges?
>>>
>>> Tramp 2.1 supports it. It is synchronized with the Emacs CVS sources.
>>> Open "/sudo::/etc", and apply "M-x find-grep".
>>>
>> Great! Thanks a lot.
>>
>> By the way, can you specify between the double colons another user
>> except root as well?
>
> /sudo:dieter@:/etc

This notation of leaving out the host is also new to me, thanks

On second thought: shouldn't /su:name@localhost:/dir not be equivalent
to /name@localhost:/dir

> It is not like this is not documented in the tramp manual.

Admitted, I did not read the *whole* documentation of tramp and so the
notation was not so obvious and as far as I leaved through the info
pages the information is not placed at a prominent point.


-- 
    Best wishes

    H. Dieter Wilhelm
    Darmstadt, Germany