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Re: TRAMP password caching


From: Michael Albinus
Subject: Re: TRAMP password caching
Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2006 21:09:39 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.0.91 (gnu/linux)

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

Hi Eli,

>> Under w32, it still might be desirable to go back to plink as default
>> method. Here I would like to get a recommendation from w32 users.
>
> What is the issue here, and how does one see it in tramp.el?  (I
> didn't follow this thread, sorry.)

Recently, tramp-default-method has been changed to "scp" respective
"pscp" methods. It has been reported, that people experience a lot of
password requests from tramp, when they do not run ssh-agent, or when
password.el is not available.

For openssh like implementations, I've (tried to) fix(ed) it by adding
ControlMaster/ControlPath arguments to the "scp" commands. AFAIK,
these arguments are not available under w32, so it shall be checked
whether "pscp" is still the preferrable default method.

Of course, one would be on the safe side when PuTTY's pageant is
running (the ssh-agent pendant). Maybe one could check this during
initialization, and set tramp-default-method to either "plink" or
"pscp", depending on the result.

Anyway, I'm not a regular w32 user, so I would appreciate all
recommendations.

Best regards, Michael.




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