Re: Tramp SUDO remote and localhost

[Tory S. Anderson]

This is just terrific; thanks! I didn't realize that Tramp had a 
manual. This fixes things!

Michael Albinus <address@hidden> writes:

> address@hidden (Tory S. Anderson) writes:
>
> Hi Tory,
>
> > I have the following in my config files:
> >
> > (add-to-list 'tramp-default-proxies-alist
> > '(nil "\\`root\\'" "/ssh:%h:") ;; 
> > https://github.com/emacs-helm/helm/issues/981
> > ))
> >
> > This causes tramp (which I'm using through Helm) to let me sudo 
> > into any of the many remote servers I work with (assuming they 
> > have ssh keys configured). However, now I can't do find-file 
> > /sudo::<local_path> as it tries to ssh to localhost. Is there 
> > any 
> > way I can keep the over-weighing benefit of sudo remote hosts 
> > while also being able to sudo locally?
>
> The Tramp manual discusses exactly this case:
>
> (add-to-list 'tramp-default-proxies-alist
>              '(nil "\\`root\\'" "/ssh:%h:"))
> (add-to-list 'tramp-default-proxies-alist
>              '((regexp-quote (system-name)) nil nil))
>
> Be careful to apply both forms in this order, the second rule 
> must be
> the first on in `tramp-default-proxies-alist'. See also
>
> (info "(tramp) Multi-hops")
>
> > - Tory
>
> Best regards, Michael.

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