"Kai Tetzlaff" <[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. > BR, Kai Best regards, Michael.
