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

[Chris Withers]

Anselm Helbig wrote:
> > Is there no way I can specify both the username to use to log in with 
> > *and* the username to sudo to as part of the C-x C-f process?
>
> Unfortunately this is no longer possible. 

Did it used to be? If so, how? And why was it changed?

> An easier way to maintain
> the user/hostname information is to keep it all in you ssh
> configuration file, ~/.ssh/config.

...except that I'm using Putty, because I'm on Windows, and no I can't 
change that.

> then "ssh foo" would be equivalent to "ssh chris@foo.example.com" and
> "ssh bar" would do the same thing as "ssh www@foo.example.com". 

If I could use putty environment names, like I can with the svn client, 
that would rock :-)
(except that I don't have the sudo to root bit in my putty environments, 
'cos that feels like a bad idea to me, so I'm still left with that 
problem...)

> But this basically boils down to the same thing, that you have to
> maintain your user/host mapping in a configuration file. 

...which is sucky :-(

> If you always
> need to do sudo to login as root you can use a generic proxy template
> like this
>
>   (add-to-list 'tramp-default-proxies-alist
>     '("\\`.*\\'" "\\`root\\'" "/ssh:%h:"))

What would I type in C-x C-f to use this template?

> How many user/host-combinations do you have? Let's find a practical
> solution for this!

around 20-40 username/host combinations, and it's not a limited list. If 
a customer adds a new server, or if I need to ssh to a machine for a one 
off config change, I don't want to have to go trawling through config 
files...

cheers,

Chris

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