Re: remote file editing over ssh with emacs 22.3.1 on Windows

[Richard Riley]

Anselm Helbig <anselm.helbig+news2009@googlemail.com> writes:

> At Sat, 09 May 2009 19:05:50 +0100,
> Chris Withers <chris@simplistix.co.uk> wrote:
>> 
>> Peter Dyballa wrote:
>> > Once you're root on that system you don't really need to, 
>> 
>> Yes, it's root I want to sudo to.
>> 
>> None of the servers I work with allow logging in as root.
>
> There's a feature in TRAMP to do just that. This used to be called
> "multi-hop" but now is configured with `tramp-default-proxies-alist';
> the documentation is still under (info "(tramp) Multi-hops"). Here's
> what I have in my .emacs to use it:
>
>   (setq tramp-default-method "ssh")
>
>   (eval-after-load "tramp"
>     '(when (boundp 'tramp-default-proxies-alist)
>            (add-to-list 'tramp-default-proxies-alist
>                   
> '("\\`\\(.*\\.example\\.com\\|somehost\\.example\\.org\\)\\'"
>                     "\\`root\\'"
>                     "/ssh:%h:"))))
>
> I set things like port and username In my .ssh/config:
>
>   Host *.example.com
>     User foo
>
>   Host somehost.example.org
>     User bar
>     Port 666
>
> Now I can do C-x C-f /sudo:www.example.com:/ <RET> and work on the
> remote host as root. 
>
> HTH, 
>
> Anselm

Q: is it only emacs 23 where you don't have to mention sudo at all?

e.g I just do:

C-x C-f "/root@host:~/.bashrc"

and tramp does the rest.