Michael Albinus <[email protected]> writes: > Hi Kai, > >>> Btw, in your example I don't understand why you want to access the >>> remote host as user "notroot", and afterwards to change the user on that >>> host to "notroot", again. >> >> That's not what I want. The `sudo::` part *should* obtain `root` >> privileges. However, the *password* which is required by sudo is the one >> for the user of the first hop: `notroot`. So the password lookup should >> be done for `notroot` instead of `root`. >> >> Its not just the password lookup in auth-source, the password prompt >> shown by TRAMP (if the password lookup faile) is misleading, too: >> >> Password for /sudo:[email protected]: >> >> This looks like a request for the password of the root user. However, >> the password to be entered is that of `notroot` (the user of the first >> hop). > > I see. It is not a problem of multi-hop per se, but a general problem of > su(do) password prompts in Tramp. Will see what I could do.
Ok, yes - but it's only a problem of the `sudo` method. For `su` the current behaviour is correct. > Best regards, Michael. BR, Kai
