From: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: tramp sudo or not sudo on remote server
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2011 10:36:15 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r543vd5s.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87bov882zz.fsf@gmx.de
On Tue, Aug 30 2011, Michael Albinus wrote:
> Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:
>
>> Sorry, I think I confused myself by using .ssh/config to define
>> Host shortcuts for servers, such that "/bl:/path" goes to a certain host as a
>> certain user.
>
> If you don't specifiy a method, likely (the default method) scp is
> used. That should work fine.
>
> For proxy hops, you couldn't use scp, because it is an external
> method. Hops must always be an internal method, like ssh.
>
> So the following shall work:
>
> (add-to-list 'tramp-default-proxies-alist
> '("\\`bl\\'" "\\`root\\'" "/ssh:bl:"))
>
> With this, it should be possible to access "/sudo:bl:/path" as root.
Great! That works perfectly (and helps me make sense of what's actually
going on in these proxy sexps).
>
>> Presumably I wouldn't be able to use this trick if I want
>> to use switch between my regular user and sudo. There are a couple of
>> awfully long host names, though -- are there any other shortcuts I can
>> use?
>
> See the Tramp manual, section "Frequently Asked Questions".
Thanks, actually all I was asking was what you answered above -- how to
continue using my .ssh/config shortcuts.
>> Thanks again, this at least got it working!
>>
>> Eric
>
> Best regards, Michael.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-08-30 2:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-08-27 10:37 tramp sudo or not sudo on remote server Eric Abrahamsen
2011-08-28 17:51 ` Michael Albinus
2011-08-29 2:20 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2011-08-29 18:52 ` Michael Albinus
2011-08-30 2:36 ` Eric Abrahamsen [this message]
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