Re: No POSIX "id" command, but have "gid" - how to use that?

[Skip Montanaro]

On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 10:57 PM, Yuji Yamano <address@hidden> wrote:

The code is taken from emacs 24.3. I guess getting the function from
lisp/net/tramp-cmds.el in 24.2 and replacing "id" with "gid" work.

Thanks. I eventually got the 24.2 emacs-el package loaded on my box and modified tramp-get-remote-id like so:

(defun tramp-get-remote-id (vec)

  (with-connection-property vec "id"

    (tramp-message vec 5 "Finding POSIX `id' command")

    (or

     (catch 'id-found

       (let (dl name names result)

(setq names '("id" "gid"))

(while names

  (setq name (car names))

  (setq dl (tramp-get-remote-path vec))

  (while (and dl

      (setq result (tramp-find-executable vec name dl t t)))

    ;; Check POSIX parameter.

    (when (tramp-send-command-and-check vec (format "%s -u" result))

      (throw 'id-found result))

    (setq dl (cdr dl)))

  (setq names (cdr names)))))

     (tramp-error vec 'file-error "Couldn't find a POSIX `id' command"))))

I'm not sure it's worthy of a modification to tramp, though I will note that many people install the GNU version of various commands with a "g" prefix, so maybe with a small amount of refactoring all the other tramp-get-remote-* functions could be modified to call a helper function which tries g-NAME after NAME.

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