Re: SU commands from Emacs

[Sven Joachim]

jadamson@partners.org (Joel J. Adamson) writes:

> Then I'm not seeing the normal behavior.  The "Password:" prompt
> appears in the minibuffer, I type and I get an error (no dots).

Actually, it's not the minibuffer, but rather the echo area, I
suspect.  Since shell-command does not read input, you cannot enter
the password. :-(

> Perhaps I need to configure sudo?

You can type 'sudo -v' in a terminal and use sudo in shell-command as
long as the ticket is valid.  That is what I do.

Regards,
        Sven