Invoking su in emacs' eshell

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I can run normal linux commands in eshell as a non-root user. When I try to su to root, all the usual linux commands are gone (ls, cat, etc.) How do I fix this?

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emacseshell
are those commands also 'gone' when you log as root in a normal shell ? - Francois G
No they aren't. M-x shell works fine even if I log as root. - avendael

1 Answers

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One way is to use tramp:

cd /su::/etc/
ls

then eshell will run command "remotly" using su.

After testing, it seem that ls do work, but there is a problem with some (but not all) external command.