From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: sebastien.kirche.no@spam.free.fr ( =?iso-8859-15?q?S=E9bastien_Kirche?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Editing a file as root Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2003 14:15:23 +0100 Organization: Guest of ProXad - France Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1071495377 24713 80.91.224.253 (15 Dec 2003 13:36:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2003 13:36:17 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Dec 15 14:36:15 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AVstS-0005Y5-01 for ; Mon, 15 Dec 2003 14:36:15 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AVtqj-0006lY-Fd for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 15 Dec 2003 09:37:29 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!proxad.net!proxad.net!feeder2-1.proxad.net!news2-2.free.fr!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) Emacs/21.3.50 (darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:yraAUL38tWYTW0DWppznBOu1Up8= Original-Lines: 17 Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 15 Dec 2003 14:16:11 MET Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 195.25.216.129 Original-X-Trace: 1071494171 news2-2.free.fr 28677 195.25.216.129:15811 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@proxad.net Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:119333 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:15272 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:15272 gebser@speakeasy.net writes: > Did you try logging into the server as root from the command line... > i.e., without using tramp? mmh , i am not sure to clearly understand the question. I can actually log in as root, or su/sudoing from within my user account (outside emacs) without any problem. As a test i just tried the same commands from within eshell : i seems that sudo works flawlessly, but i found that i lost the prompt when suing. That made me think it also hangs, but in fact eshell keeps responsive with su, it just stops displaying the prompt. It comes back after an exit to the normal user. Sébastien Kirche