Re: [tlug] The Mother of All (bash) Commands

["emiddleton@example.com" <emiddleton@example.com>]

Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> Godwin Stewart writes:
>
>  > GUI front-end (think popen(3)) -- however it's ssh that's greatly
>  > facilitating the remote backup or monitoring by mapping its stdin and
>  > stdout to those of the remote process.
>
> Or the local process.  Emacs's TRAMP package uses ssh to access
> privileged accounts even locally.  Although in general this is
> roundabout, the point is that TRAMP requires ssh for its normal
> functioning (its basic mission is accessing remote files by ssh), so
> ssh is known to be present, while sudo, super, su and so on may not.
>   

So it requires remote root login?

Edward