Re: sudo in emacs

[Harold Pimentel]

Does this help?

http://emacs-fu.blogspot.com/2011/12/system-administration-with-emacs.html

(also see the link in the text 'editing files owned by root with tramp')

Harold

On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 4:47 PM, Rajanikanth Jammalamadaka
<rajanikanth@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> My work environment requires that I sudo to an administrative userid using:
>
> sudo -u userid sudo-sh
>
> I normally run emacs using my login userid which is different from the 
> administrative userid.
>
> Is there a way I can do this using tramp?
>
> The problem of doing this from shell/eshell is that I am able to login using 
> the above sudo command but when I open a file using C-x C-f, the files
> are opening with my userid rather than the administrative userid.
>
> Is there a workaround for this?
>
> Thanks,
> Raj
>
>