Hello Michael
Thanks for this reply. I tried your recipe, it wasn't successful. I noticed that FTP message number 331 is used at various places in ange-ftp.el ,but was unable to assess whether message number 334 would alos apply at these places. For the time being, I assume thas the wisest way will be to wait a bit, expecting that my sytem administrator will improve the FTP server messages on the target machine (as he announced it)
Thanks a lot for trying, anyway
Best regards
Stephane
De: "Michael Albinus" <address@hidden>
À: "SENESI Stéphane" <address@hidden>
Cc: address@hidden
Envoyé: Vendredi 16 Janvier 2015 17:03:31
Objet: Re: Tramp is misleaded by an error message at ftp login
SENESI Stéphane <address@hidden> writes:
> Dear Tramp users and gurus
Hi Stéphane,
> New machine, new issues : my new 'archive' machine, Hendrix, issues an
> error message upon ftp connection, which drives Tramp in a strange
> state : albeit it is able to go ahead, and to forward the password
> which I typed in, and hence to successfully log in, it nevertheless
> issues an error message (which actually is a copy of the ftp error
> message, see below) and do not list the directory I was asking for
>
> Is there a simple way to bypass this problem ?
It is not Tramp, but ange-ftp.el which handles this.
> Here is the session transcript :
>
> ftp> open hendrix
> Connected to hendrix.meteo.fr.
> 220-# HPSS 7.4 Parallel FTP Daemon on hendrixftp0
> # coming from lxaster7.cnrm.meteo.fr
>
> 220 hendrixftp0 FTP server (HPSS 7.4 PFTPD V1.1.1 Mon Dec 1 22:56:04
> UTC 2014) ready.
> user "senesi" Turtle Power!
> 334 Using authentication type GSSAPI; ADAT must follow
> GSSAPI accepted as authentication type
> GSSAPI error major: Unspecified GSS failure. Minor code may provide
> more information
> GSSAPI error minor: No Kerberos credentials available
> GSSAPI error: initializing context
> GSSAPI authentication failed
> Remote system type is UNIX.
> Using binary mode to transfer files.
> ftp> 331 Password required for senesi.
> 230 User senesi logged in as address@hidden
I assume the line "334 Using authentication type GSSAPI; ADAT must follow"
is shown, right? In this case, you could try the patch
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
*** /tmp/ediff29392kWo 2015-01-16 16:57:49.973510031 +0100
--- /home/albinus/src/emacs/lisp/net/ange-ftp.el 2015-01-16 16:57:32.225196912 +0100
***************
*** 715,721 ****
;; security-aware FTP servers should respond to this with a 500 code,
;; which we ignore.
(defcustom ange-ftp-skip-msgs
! (concat "^200 \\(PORT\\|Port\\) \\|^331 \\|^150 \\|^350 \\|^[0-9]+ bytes \\|"
"^Connected \\|^$\\|^Remote system\\|^Using\\|^ \\|Password:\\|"
"^Data connection \\|"
"^local:\\|^Trying\\|^125 \\|^550-\\|^221 .*oodbye\\|"
--- 715,721 ----
;; security-aware FTP servers should respond to this with a 500 code,
;; which we ignore.
(defcustom ange-ftp-skip-msgs
! (concat "^200 \\(PORT\\|Port\\) \\|^33[14] \\|^150 \\|^350 \\|^[0-9]+ bytes \\|"
"^Connected \\|^$\\|^Remote system\\|^Using\\|^ \\|Password:\\|"
"^Data connection \\|"
"^local:\\|^Trying\\|^125 \\|^550-\\|^221 .*oodbye\\|"
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
> Thanks.
Best regards, Michael.
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