Re: TRAMP hanging on “Waiting for prompts …”

[Michael Albinus]

Sean Whitton <address@hidden> writes:

> Dear Michael,

Hi Sean,

> Also this morning I needed to SSH to a machine other than athena and
> that hung in the same way—this was a password connection rather than a
> SSH key one, but I never got asked for my password.

Password handling is in the way. Do you have some .netrc or .authinfo
files in use? If yes, could you move them somewhere else temporarily?

Additionally, you could add verbosity to the ssh command. Please, eval
this:

(add-to-list 'tramp-methods
  '("sean"
    (tramp-login-program        "ssh")
    (tramp-login-args           (("-v") ("-l" "%u") ("-p" "%p") ("-e" "none") 
("%h")))
    (tramp-async-args           (("-q")))
    (tramp-remote-sh            "/bin/sh")
    (tramp-gw-args              (("-o" "GlobalKnownHostsFile=/dev/null")
                                 ("-o" "UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null")
                                 ("-o" "StrictHostKeyChecking=no")))
    (tramp-default-port         22)))

Then, you might try to open "C-x C-f /sean:address@hidden:". Hopefully,
there are more information in the Tramp buffers.
 
> S

Best regards, Michael.