Emacs/tramp: sudo to root on localhost hangs after asking for password

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Published on 2010-03-18T10:54:05Z Indexed on 2010/03/18 12:41 UTC
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Can't use the su method, since I don't really want to veer from the Ubunut default too much. ssh is right out (for localhost? I ask you!).

It shows a "Waiting fro prompts from remote shell". And that's it, apparently. Or is it just that incredibly slow?

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