Re: TRAMP password caching

[Lars Hansen]

Michael Albinus wrote:

>I am running Ubuntu 06.10 (OK, it is newer than Debian 3.1), which offers
>
>arthur:~> ssh -V
>OpenSSH_4.3p2 Debian-5ubuntu1, OpenSSL 0.9.8b 04 May 2006
>
>Which ssh version are you running?
>
OpenSSH_3.8.1p1 Debian-8.sarge.6, OpenSSL 0.9.7e 25 Oct 2004

>Do you know a simple test to
>determine whether a given ssh version offers ControlMaster?
>  
>
AFAIK ControlMaster was introduced in OpenSSH version 4, so testing the
output of ssh -V might do.

>What are the symptoms when Tramp does "not work at all on current
>stable Debian GNU/Linux"?
>  
>
One gets the message "Login failed" and the tramp buffer contains
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command-line: line 0: Bad configuration option: ControlPath

Process *tramp/scp address@hidden exited abnormally with code 1
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