Re: TRAMP password caching

[Michael Albinus]

Lars Hansen <address@hidden> writes:

> I what way is it cleaner/smoother/more userfriendly apart from the
> password cashing problem?
> According to the manual, password cashing works if password.el is
> included in Emacs. If there is no legal problem here, this seems to be
> the right solution.

Tramp uses password.el from gnus, if it's in the load-path. This does
not seem to be part of Emacs 22.1 (yet).

A second issue is that Tramp let the password expire after 16" by
default. With scp as default method, this doesn't seem to be
clever. The default shall be "no expiration" (password-cache-expiry
set to nil).

Best regards, Michael.