Re: run ssh in emacs

[Haines Brown]

Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> writes:

> Haines Brown <haines@histomat.net> writes:
>>
>> I need to do some kind of debug or trace on the command to see just what
>> is going on, but don't know how to do it.
>
> No you don't.
> You already have the problem staring you in the face.
>
> .netrc must have permissions:
>
> -r--------
>
> It won't work any other way.

Dan, that was the answer! Now I understand the reason for the
permissions warning message. One would think man netrc would mention
this restriction. 

A primitive -r-------- strikes me as a nuisance because I would have to
go through chmod just to modify the file, but I find that ange-ftp
also works with -rw-------.

Haines