GNU bug report logs - #14142
24.3.50; documentation bug in TRAMP

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: joakim <at> verona.se

Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2013 07:42:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: notabug

Found in version 24.3.50

Done: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #8 received at submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Thierry Volpiatto <thierry.volpiatto <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#14142: 24.3.50; documentation bug in TRAMP
Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2013 09:44:44 +0200

joakim <at> verona.se writes:

> There is a possible documentation bug in TRAMP.
>
> The TRAMP docs say:
>
> ,----
> |    Opening `/sudo:randomhost.your.domain:' would connect first
> | `randomhost.your.domain' via `ssh' under your account name, and perform
> | `sudo -u root' on that host afterwards.  It is important to know that
> | the given method is applied on the host which has been reached so far.
> | `sudo -u root', applied on your local host, wouldn't be useful here.
> `----
>
> But when I try it I get:
>
> byte-code: Host `demo.verona.se' looks like a remote host, `sudo' can only use the local host

Probably you didn't configure `tramp-default-proxies-alist'.


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