Re: Can't authenticate with RSA keys

[Michael Albinus]

Rick <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi Michael,

Hi,

> However, I am facing a different issue now.
> On my account at the remote server I use tcsh shell and not bash.
> And some of the command in my .emacs file use mercurial "hg" command through
> (call-interactively) which expects that my aliases that has the path to hg
> already sourced.
>
> However, it doesn't seem that Tramp source my tcsh start up files upon login.
> Is there a way to specify which startup files on the remote server I want to
> source when logging in? Or is my only option is to switch to bash?

In fact, Tramp requires a bournish shell for work. tcsh supports another
syntax and is not suited for Tramp.

Because Tramp does not know which login shell is used, it applies
immediately after login "exec /bin/sh". So you must bring your settings
to ~/.profile or a similar file.