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24.0.95; sudo rm doesn't work with absolute directory paths on the file system

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From: Thierry Volpiatto <thierry.volpiatto <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#11194: 24.0.95;
	sudo rm doesn't work with absolute directory paths on the file system
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2012 18:57:31 +0200

Thierry Volpiatto <thierry.volpiatto <at> gmail.com> writes:

> Hi Michael,
>
> Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de> writes:
>
>> And, btw, people who don't like the current behaviour are free to add
>>
>> alias sudo *sudo $*
> Most people use such an alias because eshell/sudo is not working with
> commands where files are not involved 
> e.g "eshell/sudo uname -a" or "eshell/sudo fdisk -l" etc...
>
> ==> ssh: connect to host localhost port 22: Connection refused
>
> Using default-directory instead of
> /sudo:user <at> localhost:<default-directory> (which use ssh port 22!!!!)
> fix it
>
> (let ((default-directory (if (string= host "localhost")
>                              default-directory
>                              (format "/sudo:%s@%s:%s" user host dir))))
>
> But maybe I missed something?
And also it is using /bin/sh which is not aware of many system
maintenance commands mostly used as root with sudo.

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  Thierry
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