Re: Editing a file as root

[Sébastien Kirche]

On my system (Mac OSX 10.2.8), emacs fails or freezes after entering the 
superuser password.
"top" shows that no cpu is used by emacs, and i can get the control back 
with C-g

Here is the messages left by tramp :

Loading tramp...
Loading executable...done
Loading tramp...done
tramp: Opening connection for `<root>' using `su'...
tramp: Waiting for prompts from remote shell
tramp: Waiting 60s for prompt from remote shell
tramp: Sending password
Password:
Password:.
Password:..
Password:...
Password:....
Password:.....
Password:......
Password:.......
tramp-process-actions: Login failed

I remember recent considerations about a bad behavior of emacs on osx
and communication with sub-processes. But i wasn't able to find them again.
Maybe it is relative to my problem ?

Sébastien Kirche