Re: tramp (2.1.18-23.2); User string gets trimmed by one character

[Michael Albinus]

"Jonathan Hill" <address@hidden> writes:

> Regardless of which username or remote server I try to log into, the
> username is consistently trimmed by one character. 'root' becomes 'roo'
> 'hillj' becomes 'hill'. Tramp initially worked but (un)magically broke
> in the way described perhaps when I tried to move my ~/.emacs from a
> windows network share "u:/" (default HOME windows env var here at my
> work) to
> "c:/emacs". I've tried blowing emacs away completely and reinstalling,
> but that doesn't fix the problem either.
>
> I can no longer get a successful tramp connection, so I don't know what
> the steps to reproduce the bug might be.

[...]

> --=-=-=
> Content-Disposition: attachment
> Content-Description: *tramp/plink address@hidden
>
> address@hidden's password:
> address@hidden's password:
> address@hidden's password:
> address@hidden's password:
> address@hidden's password:
> address@hidden's password:
> address@hidden's password:
> Access denied
> Access denied
> Access denied
> Access denied
> Access denied
> Access denied
> FATAL ERROR: Server sent disconnect message
> type 2 (protocol error):
> "Too many authentication failures for roo"

[...]

> 11:51:26.161000 tramp-send-command (6) # plink rh1.orc.com -l root
> -ssh && exit || exit

Tramp seems to send the correct command. Maybe you try from a CMD window
that command:

plink rh1.orc.com -l root -ssh

If there is the same error, I would check PuTTY settings.

Best regards, Michael.