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Re: TRAMP password caching
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Michael Albinus |
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Re: TRAMP password caching |
Date: |
Sat, 02 Dec 2006 11:46:22 +0100 |
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Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:
>>> What about if you use ssh-agent? Does that solve the problem?
>> ssh-agent solves the problem.
>
>> So does using these 2 lines:
>> ControlMaster auto
>> ControlPath /tmp/address@hidden:%p
>> in ~/.ssh/config, and having an existing ssh connection to the remote
>> host. Then 'scp' will reuse the existing ssh connection and not
>> need the user to specify a password.
>
>> Would someone like to propose a solution consisting of documentation
>> changes with these suggestions?
>
> Sounds good, but if the user has to change its config to get Tramp/scp to
> work acceptably, then she may as well change tramp-default-method.
> So I think the default should be "ssh" because it's the only setting that
> works acceptably without any need for the user to use
> a particular ssh configuration. Then we can tell them "if performance
> sucks, use scp which involves these and that changes to your SSH
> config".
In Tramp 2.1, ControlMaster/ControlPath have been added _as parameters_
to scp calls. I'll check whether I can backport it to Tramp 2.0; not
trivial due to different data structures between Tramp 2.0/2.1. But
shall be possible.
> Stefan
Best regards, Michael.
Re: TRAMP password caching, Michael Mauger, 2006/12/01
Re: TRAMP password caching, Richard Stallman, 2006/12/01
- Re: TRAMP password caching, Stefan Monnier, 2006/12/01
- Re: TRAMP password caching,
Michael Albinus <=
- Re: TRAMP password caching, Richard Stallman, 2006/12/02
- Re: TRAMP password caching, Michael Albinus, 2006/12/04
- Re: TRAMP password caching, Eli Zaretskii, 2006/12/04
- Re: TRAMP password caching, Michael Albinus, 2006/12/04
- Re: TRAMP password caching, Eli Zaretskii, 2006/12/04
- Re: TRAMP password caching, Eli Zaretskii, 2006/12/12
- Re: TRAMP password caching, Michael Albinus, 2006/12/13
- Re: TRAMP password caching, Jason Rumney, 2006/12/13
- Re: TRAMP password caching, Michael Albinus, 2006/12/13
- Re: TRAMP password caching, Eli Zaretskii, 2006/12/13