Re: over-engineered (and under-standardized) inferior interfaces

[Sam Steingold]

On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 2:57 AM, Michael Albinus <address@hidden> wrote:
> Sam Steingold <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> (setq sql-vertica-default-directory "/ssh:vertica|sudo:dbadmin")
>
> How shall this work? You hop to 2 different hosts "vertica" and
> "dbadmin", without saying which user to take for authentication. And
> sudo does not work this way, it must always be on the same host as the
> previous hop (or localhost, when it is the first and only hop).
>
> See my example "/ssh:address@hidden|sudo:address@hidden:". It is by intention,
> that I haven't written "host1" and "host2".

Okay, thanks for the explanation, I did
(setq sql-vertica-default-directory "/ssh:vertica|sudo:address@hidden:")
and
(setq sql-vertica-default-directory "/ssh:vertica|sudo:address@hidden/")
and still got

Host name must not match method "sudo"

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