Re: TRAMP password caching

[Michael Albinus]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

>     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.
>
> That is true, but using ssh-agent is convenient in general; lots of
> people will be glad to switch to it once they know about it.
> (I was.)
>
>     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".
>
> Maybe.  I would like to see if anyone else objects.

I've added ControlMaster/ControlPath options to the scp method. This
should mitigate the situation, at least for ssh versions which support
these options.

Under w32, it still might be desirable to go back to plink as default
method. Here I would like to get a recommendation from w32 users.

Best regards, Michael.