Re: TRAMP password caching

[Stefan Monnier]

>> What about if you use ssh-agent?  Does that solve the problem?
>     ssh-agent solves the problem.

>     So does using these 2 lines:
>       ControlMaster auto
>       ControlPath /tmp/address@hidden:%p
>     in ~/.ssh/config, and having an existing ssh connection to the remote
>     host.  Then 'scp' will reuse the existing ssh connection and not
>     need the user to specify a password.

> Would someone like to propose a solution consisting of documentation
> changes with these suggestions?

Sounds good, but if the user has to change its config to get Tramp/scp to
work acceptably, then she may as well change tramp-default-method.
So I think the default should be "ssh" because it's the only setting that
works acceptably without any need for the user to use
a particular ssh configuration.  Then we can tell them "if performance
sucks, use scp which involves these and that changes to your SSH config".


        Stefan