I'm using the C-x C-f option to use SSH to edit a file.
The file I'm editing requires my SSH user to use sudo.
When I start editing the file it says read-only. How can I remotely edit files requiring sudo?
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2I'm not 100% sure what is the convention for dealing with questions already answered elsewhere in the stackexchange network ("cross-site duplicates"), but this question on stackoverflow has a detailed (and looking at the current manual, still up-to-date) answer.– aplaiceCommented Nov 21, 2017 at 15:14
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Using TRAMP multi-hops. For instance, if you want to edit the remote file /root/salary.txt
/ssh:homer@powerplant|sudo:powerplant:/root/salary.txt
The example is taken from the Mastering Emacs book.
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You can omit the second
powerplantif you stay on the machine you're sshing to. Source: emacswiki.org/emacs/TrampMode#toc18 . Edit: I was wrong. I didn't read the page thoroughly. Commented Nov 24, 2017 at 18:06
I wrote a command for automating @Manuel Uberti's answer. The second one is the one I'd use. It uses the first one for remote files and uses crux for local files.
(require 'crux)
(require 's)
(defun my--reopen-remote-file-as-root ()
"Reopen a remote file as root over tramp."
(find-alternate-file (let* ((parts (s-split ":" buffer-file-name))
(hostname (nth 1 parts))
(filepath (car (last parts))))
(concat "/ssh" ":" hostname "|" "sudo" ":" hostname ":" filepath))))
(defun my/reopen-file-as-root ()
"Reopen a local or remote file as root."
(interactive)
(if (file-remote-p default-directory)
(progn
(my--reopen-remote-file-as-root)))
(crux-reopen-as-root))
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It doesn't check if current buffer is already opened with sudo(contains "sudo" in its name). Commented May 1, 2020 at 15:09