Re: doas method default user should be user-login-name

[Sunil Nimmagadda]

Michael Albinus <address@hidden> writes:

> Sunil Nimmagadda <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Hi,
>
> Hi Sunil,
>
>> doas(1) on the commandline while prompting for password displays
>> address@hidden, for example...
>>
>> ~$ doas ls
>> doas (address@hidden) password:
>>
>> but tramp's doas method default username is set to "root" and the text
>> displayed while prompting for password is...
>>
>> Password for /doas:address@hidden:
>>
>> which confused me. doas(1) expects the user's password. The following
>> diff sets doas method's default user to user-login-name instead of
>> "root".
>>
>> I was wondering if this a good approach to fix the prompt, thanks.
>
> If you change the default user name like this, "/doas::" would work as
> yourself, with user-login-name. This doesn't make sense. "root" seems to
> be the better default.
>
> I acknowledge that the prompt might be a little bit confusing. Tramp
> shows always a prompt indicating which user will be used after
> switching. But as experienced user of doas, you know that you shall
> always give your own password, like for su and sudo.

As a newbie tramp user, I missed the fact that it indicates username
that will be used *after* switching. Thank you for the clarification.