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* Tim X.:

> However, I did have a thought....
>
> If you can connect via tramp to a user account OK, but it appears to
> fail when you attempt to connect as root AND if you are able to connect
> as root just using ssh outside of emacs/tramp, then my guess would be
> that tramp may be having problem detecting the shell prompt. 

Actually though about that too;  root's PS1 on remote is '# '.  Regular
user prompt is '$ '.  Both use openbsd ksh as their shell.  That openbsd
install is pretty much default, at least wrt. user/root env.