Re: SU commands from Emacs

[David Kastrup]

Dieter Wilhelm <dieter@duenenhof-wilhelm.de> writes:

> Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de> writes:
>
>> Dieter Wilhelm <dieter@duenenhof-wilhelm.de> writes:
>>
>>> Yes, lately I stumbled over a find-grep in /etc.  How could this be
>>> done with root privileges?
>>
>> Tramp 2.1 supports it. It is synchronized with the Emacs CVS sources.
>> Open "/sudo::/etc", and apply "M-x find-grep".
>>
> Great! Thanks a lot.
>
> By the way, can you specify between the double colons another user
> except root as well?

/sudo:dieter@:/etc

It is not like this is not documented in the tramp manual.

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