Here’s how you can edit remote sudo-protected files without leaving emacs:
Since Emacs 23.2, eshell has also an own implementation of the su and sudo commands. Both commands change the default directory of the *eshell* buffer to the value related to the user the command has switched to. This works even on remote hosts, adding silently a corresponding entry to the variable tramp-default-proxies-alist (see Multi-hops):
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~ $ cd /ssh:user@remotehost:/etc /ssh:user@remotehost:/etc $ find-file shadow File is not readable: /ssh:user@remotehost:/etc/shadow /ssh:user@remotehost:/etc $ sudo find-file shadow # /ssh:user@remotehost:/etc $ su - /su:root@remotehost:/root $ id uid=0(root) gid=0(root) groups=0(root) /su:root@remotehost:/root $ |
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