[lokedhs]

Well, there is Tramp with the sudo edit method.

To access the remote machine via ssh and then use sudo to root access the files:

    /ssh:user@localhost|sudo:localhost:/path/to/file

This is using the multi-hop solution as explained here:

https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/tramp/Ad...

https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/17725/how-to-sudo-...