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From: | Kevin Rodgers |
Subject: | Re: copying in dired with sudo permissions |
Date: | Fri, 31 Oct 2003 13:21:22 -0700 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS i86pc; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020406 Netscape6/6.2.2 |
Leo wrote:
in dired i want to copy file to a directory which only root can write.in a shell i could do the copying via sudo cp <from> <to>. any idea how i can tell dired to use "sudo cp" instead of "cp" and how do i provide then the sudo password?
You don't. Instead, you specify the file using ange-ftp or tramp syntax, e.g /root@localhost:/only-root-could-write-this-file.txt -- Kevin Rodgers
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