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bug#55555: 28.1; Tramp prompting for password even with an existing .aut
From: |
Thierry Volpiatto |
Subject: |
bug#55555: 28.1; Tramp prompting for password even with an existing .authinfo.gpg file |
Date: |
Sat, 21 May 2022 19:08:16 +0000 |
Hi Michael,
Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de> writes:
> Thierry Volpiatto <thievol@posteo.net> writes:
>
> Hi Thierry,
>
>> This is not happening up to Emacs-28.1, this starts happening recently
>> from emacs-29+.
>
> Do you use a "sudo" connection?
Yes.
> There has been a change in the .authinfo entry, see etc/NEWS from
> master:
>
> *** Proper password prompts for methods "doas", "sudo" and "sudoedit".
> The password prompts for these methods reflect now the credentials of
> the user requesting such a connection, and not of the user who is the
> target. This has always been needed, just the password prompt and the
> related 'auth-sources' entry were wrong.
Ok thanks, will try soon to modify authsource file.
> And the Tramp manual says
>
> For the methods ‘doas’, ‘sudo’ and ‘sudoedit’ the password of the
> user requesting the connection is needed, and not the password of the
> target user. If these connections happen on the local host, an entry
> with the local user and local host is used:
>
> machine HOST port sudo login USER password secret
Is this compatible with previous emacs versions (at least 28)?
I use
default port sudo login root password xxxxx
since years now so I was surprized this stopped working suddently.
>> It asks also to save password in authinfo file when entering password.
>> Really annoying.
>
> See the Tramp manual:
>
> If no proper entry exists, the password is read interactively.
> After successful login (verification of the password), Emacs offers to
> save a corresponding entry for further use by ‘auth-source’ backends
> which support this. This can be changed by setting the user option
> ‘auth-source-save-behavior’ to ‘nil’.
Ok thanks for this, I don't want anything writing in this file.
Thanks.
--
Thierry
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