Re: Changing users after connecting to remote machine

[Michael Albinus]

On 06/22/2010 07:24 PM, J. David Boyd wrote:
> Many of our production machines are set up in a way that we have to:
>
> 1. Log in as ourselves
> 2. 'su -' to the user to do work as
> 3. exit
> 4. exit
>
>
> I've perused the docs, and don't see any way to do this.
>
> Is it possible in Tramp?  I hope?  I'd love to be able to connect
> through my local emacs, and edit files out there on our system.

Yes, it is possible (I assume you are using Tramp 2.1). See the Tramp doc:

(info "(tramp) Multi-hops")

describes an example, how to do this.

> Thanks,
>
> Dave in Largo, FL

Best regards, Michael.