I want to open a file using sudo (say, /etc/hosts) on a remote machine connected by ssh using TRAMP on Emacs.
I tried couple of options, but none of them worked. Can anybody tell me how to go about it?
Thank you
A:
In recent Emacsen and Unixes it's dead simple, just visit a file (C-x C-f) and start the file name with ssh://server:/file.
If you are using Windows, first install Putty and put it in your PATH environment variable. Then when you visit a file use plink://server:/file instead of ssh://server:/file.
wm_eddie
2010-08-12 08:01:01
Would that not require him to authenticate as root?
Joel J. Adamson
2010-08-12 17:10:32
ssh will by default use your current username. You can another one by using `ssh://username:password@server:/file` Entering the password every time gets tedious really fast though, so I suggest setting up public-key authentication (then it's just `ssh://username@server:/file`).
wm_eddie
2010-08-13 02:59:53
A:
Duplicate of: Open file via SSH and Sudo with Emacs
See documentation here: http://www.gnu.org/software/tramp/#Multi_002dhops
phils
2010-08-12 12:07:54