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From: Piet van Oostrum <piet@cs.uu.nl>
Subject: Re: Editing a file as root
Date: 17 Dec 2003 16:51:36 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <wzy8tbjvcn.fsf@nono.cs.uu.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: m2brqanyrz.fsf@sage.com

>>>>> sebastien.kirche.no@spam.free.fr ( Sébastien Kirche) (SK) wrote:

SK> On my system (Mac OSX 10.2.8), emacs fails or freezes after entering the 
SK> superuser password.
SK> "top" shows that no cpu is used by emacs, and i can get the control back 
SK> with C-g

I use the following entry in tramp-default-method-alist:

 ("\\`nono\\'" ".*" "sudo")

(nono is the name of my computer), and then I enter /nono:/filename
This works.
-- 
Piet van Oostrum <piet@cs.uu.nl>
URL: http://www.cs.uu.nl/~piet [PGP]
Private email: P.van.Oostrum@hccnet.nl

  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-12-17 15:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <E1AT5y2-0002EZ-OF@monty-python.gnu.org>
2003-12-14 18:54 ` Editing a file as root bhiker
     [not found] ` <mailman.62.1071431778.868.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-12-14 21:09   ` Dan Anderson
2003-12-14 21:25     ` David Kastrup
2003-12-15  0:12       ` Micha Feigin
     [not found]       ` <mailman.65.1071450890.868.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-12-15  0:50         ` David Kastrup
2003-12-15 17:22           ` Micha Feigin
     [not found]           ` <mailman.105.1071513681.868.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-12-15 21:57             ` Benjamin Rutt
2003-12-16 12:41               ` Micha Feigin
     [not found]               ` <mailman.136.1071582719.868.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-12-16 15:36                 ` Benjamin Rutt
2003-12-17 18:01             ` Kai Grossjohann
2003-12-15 10:47       `  Sébastien Kirche
2003-12-15 12:40         ` gebser
2003-12-17 15:51         ` Piet van Oostrum [this message]
2003-12-17 18:04         ` Kai Grossjohann
2003-12-18 17:28           ` Kevin Rodgers
2003-12-18 18:28             ` Kai Grossjohann
2003-12-19 11:16               ` Piet van Oostrum
2003-12-21 13:52                 ` Kai Grossjohann
2003-12-15 18:39   ` kgold
     [not found] <mailman.83.1071495859.868.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-12-15 13:15 `  Sébastien Kirche
2003-12-15 16:17   ` gebser
2003-12-17 18:06   ` Kai Grossjohann
     [not found] <mailman.97.1071509004.868.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-12-17 10:07 `  Sébastien Kirche
2003-12-17 13:19   ` gebser
2003-12-17 18:08   ` Kai Grossjohann

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