Re: sudo:: method in tramp possible security issue

[Michael Albinus]

João Távora <address@hidden> writes:

> Alternatively, how would you feel about adding something to 
> the mode-line clearly showing that there is an ongoing 
> superuser session going on?

As said the other mail, this is provided by the GNU ELPA package
tramp-theme. When writing this package I decided against making it the
default, because people are very idiosyncratic about the modeline.

> For me, mentioning it in the manual isn't very useful, because
> few people read the manual, fine as it may be :-)

Maintaining Tramp for ~15 years, I'm often feeling that writing
something into the manual is superfluous. For almost every explanation
there, I still get request to repeat the description in the mailing list
/ on stackexchange / you name it.

> João Távora

Best regards, Michael.