Re: auth-source source password lookup for ssh + sudo

[Michael Albinus]

Kai Tetzlaff <tramp@tetzco.de> writes:

> Hi Michael,

Hi Kai,

> with auth-source enabled when SSHing to a server with sudo as 2nd hop
> like `notroot@host.example.com|sudo:/etc/passwd` TRAMP apparently tries
> to look up the sudo password using `user=root, host=host.example.com,
> port=sudo` (at least that is what auth-source-pass tells me with
> debugging enabled [1]). Now, why does the lookup use `user=root` instead of
> `user=notroot`. Is there a way to change that?

Could you please be more precise? `notroot@host.example.com|sudo:/etc/passwd`
does not look like a valid remote file name.

> Thanks,
> Kai

Best regards, Michael.