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Re: TRAMP sudo method not asking for password
From: |
Michael Albinus |
Subject: |
Re: TRAMP sudo method not asking for password |
Date: |
Sun, 20 Jan 2019 11:52:47 +0100 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl> writes:
Hi Marcin,
>> Why should it? Tramp uses auth-source, which has different backends. It
>> is not only the .authinfo file which gets the passwords, other backends
>> like the Secret Service API behave similar.
>
> Well, I didn't know anything about it. (Perhaps not reading the TRAMP
> manual was a mistake... Still, just a mention of auth-source *might* be
> a good idea when discussing TRAMP in the Emacs manual. IDK.)
There are several other packages using auth-source, none of them have a
respective hint in the Emacs manual. I don't see why Tramp needs an
exception.
Reading the Tramp manual shall be sufficient.
>>> 1. Am I the only one that thinks that this change could be made a bit
>>> more prominent? Like using something like yes-or-no-p (as opposed to
>>> y-or-n-p) by default, for example? Saving passwords to a plain text
>>> file is something big, which should not happen by accident, right?
>>
>> Again, we don't speak about plain files only. And yes, yes-or-no-p might
>> fit better. This must be changed in auth-source.el.
>>
>> Let's wait for some few days, and if nobody objects, I'll change
>> accordingly.
>
> Thanks for the change (if it takes place), and for your time answering
> my questions.
I've written the bug report (a feature request rather) bug#34145.
> Best,
Best regards, Michael.
- TRAMP sudo method not asking for password, Marcin Borkowski, 2019/01/12
- Re: TRAMP sudo method not asking for password, Marcin Borkowski, 2019/01/12
- Re: TRAMP sudo method not asking for password, Marcin Borkowski, 2019/01/12
- Re: TRAMP sudo method not asking for password, Michael Albinus, 2019/01/12
- Re: TRAMP sudo method not asking for password, Marcin Borkowski, 2019/01/16
- Re: TRAMP sudo method not asking for password, Michael Albinus, 2019/01/16
- Re: TRAMP sudo method not asking for password, Marcin Borkowski, 2019/01/20
- Re: TRAMP sudo method not asking for password,
Michael Albinus <=
- Re: TRAMP sudo method not asking for password, Marcin Borkowski, 2019/01/24
- Re: TRAMP sudo method not asking for password, Michael Albinus, 2019/01/26
- Re: TRAMP sudo method not asking for password, Robert Pluim, 2019/01/27
- Re: TRAMP sudo method not asking for password, Michael Albinus, 2019/01/27
- Re: TRAMP sudo method not asking for password, Marcin Borkowski, 2019/01/28