Re: tramp (2.1.18-23.2); User string gets trimmed by one character

[Jonathan Hill]

On 7/21/2010 10:51 AM, Michael Albinus wrote:
> "Jonathan Hill"<address@hidden>  writes:
>
>    
> > Regardless of which username or remote server I try to log into, the
> > username is consistently trimmed by one character. 'root' becomes 'roo'
> > 'hillj' becomes 'hill'. Tramp initially worked but (un)magically broke
> > in the way described perhaps when I tried to move my ~/.emacs from a
> > windows network share "u:/" (default HOME windows env var here at my
> > work) to
> > "c:/emacs". I've tried blowing emacs away completely and reinstalling,
> > but that doesn't fix the problem either.
> >
> > I can no longer get a successful tramp connection, so I don't know what
> > the steps to reproduce the bug might be.
> >      
> [...]
>
>    
> > --=-=-=
> > Content-Disposition: attachment
> > Content-Description: *tramp/plink address@hidden
> >
> > address@hidden's password:
> > address@hidden's password:
> > address@hidden's password:
> > address@hidden's password:
> > address@hidden's password:
> > address@hidden's password:
> > address@hidden's password:
> > Access denied
> > Access denied
> > Access denied
> > Access denied
> > Access denied
> > Access denied
> > FATAL ERROR: Server sent disconnect message
> > type 2 (protocol error):
> > "Too many authentication failures for roo"
> >      
> [...]
>
>    
> > 11:51:26.161000 tramp-send-command (6) # plink rh1.orc.com -l root
> > -ssh&&  exit || exit
> >      
> Tramp seems to send the correct command. Maybe you try from a CMD window
> that command:
>
> plink rh1.orc.com -l root -ssh
>
> If there is the same error, I would check PuTTY settings.
>
> Best regards, Michael.
>    
Per your suggestion, I did the testing you suggested. The results are 
interesting. If you send "plink rh1.orc.com -l root", it does NOT 
register that a username was passed. However, if you send "plink -l root 
rh1.orc.com", then it works as expected. I suspect that I still need to 
change something about how tramp passes the command, but perhaps 
(hopefully) the "trimming" is just a red herring in this case.

Thanks,

--jonathan