Re: copying in dired with sudo permissions

[Kevin Rodgers]

Leo wrote:

> in dired i want to copy file to a directory which only root can write.
>
> in a shell i could do the copying via sudo cp <from> <to>. any idea how 
> i can tell dired to use "sudo cp" instead of "cp" and how do i provide 
> then the sudo password?

You don't.  Instead, you specify the file using ange-ftp or tramp syntax, e.g

/root@localhost:/only-root-could-write-this-file.txt


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Kevin Rodgers