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

[Jonathan Hill]

On 7/23/2010 10:25 AM, Michael Albinus wrote:
> "Jonathan Hill"<address@hidden>  writes:
>
>    
> > Per your suggestion, I did the testing you suggested. The results are
> > interesting. If you send "plink rh1.orc.com -l root", it does NOT
> > register that a username was passed. However, if you send "plink -l
> > root rh1.orc.com", then it works as expected. I suspect that I still
> > need to change something about how tramp passes the command, but
> > perhaps (hopefully) the "trimming" is just a red herring in this case.
> >      
> Thanks for analysis, I've committed the following patch:
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> *** /home/albinus/src/tramp/lisp/tramp.el.~2.805~       2010-07-23 
> 16:02:42.409923357 +0200
> --- /home/albinus/src/tramp/lisp/tramp.el       2010-07-23 15:52:10.000000000 
> +0200
> ***************
> *** 599,606 ****
>              (tramp-copy-keep-date       nil)
>              (tramp-password-end-of-line nil))
>        ("plink" (tramp-login-program        "plink")
> !            (tramp-login-args           (("%h") ("-l" "%u") ("-P" "%p")
> !                                         ("-ssh")))
>              (tramp-remote-sh            "/bin/sh")
>              (tramp-copy-program         nil)
>              (tramp-copy-args            nil)
> --- 599,606 ----
>              (tramp-copy-keep-date       nil)
>              (tramp-password-end-of-line nil))
>        ("plink" (tramp-login-program        "plink")
> !            (tramp-login-args           (("-l" "%u") ("-P" "%p")
> !                                         ("-ssh") ("%h")))
>              (tramp-remote-sh            "/bin/sh")
>              (tramp-copy-program         nil)
>              (tramp-copy-args            nil)
> ***************
> *** 609,616 ****
>              (tramp-default-port         22))
>        ("plink1"
>              (tramp-login-program        "plink")
> !            (tramp-login-args           (("%h") ("-l" "%u") ("-P" "%p")
> !                                         ("-1" "-ssh")))
>              (tramp-remote-sh            "/bin/sh")
>              (tramp-copy-program         nil)
>              (tramp-copy-args            nil)
> --- 609,616 ----
>              (tramp-default-port         22))
>        ("plink1"
>              (tramp-login-program        "plink")
> !            (tramp-login-args           (("-l" "%u") ("-P" "%p")
> !                                         ("-1" "-ssh") ("%h")))
>              (tramp-remote-sh            "/bin/sh")
>              (tramp-copy-program         nil)
>              (tramp-copy-args            nil)
> ***************
> *** 633,640 ****
>              (tramp-copy-keep-date       nil)
>              (tramp-password-end-of-line nil))
>        ("pscp"  (tramp-login-program        "plink")
> !            (tramp-login-args           (("%h") ("-l" "%u") ("-P" "%p")
> !                                         ("-ssh")))
>              (tramp-remote-sh            "/bin/sh")
>              (tramp-copy-program         "pscp")
>              (tramp-copy-args            (("-P" "%p") ("-scp") ("-p" "%k")))
> --- 633,640 ----
>              (tramp-copy-keep-date       nil)
>              (tramp-password-end-of-line nil))
>        ("pscp"  (tramp-login-program        "plink")
> !            (tramp-login-args           (("-l" "%u") ("-P" "%p")
> !                                         ("-ssh") ("%h")))
>              (tramp-remote-sh            "/bin/sh")
>              (tramp-copy-program         "pscp")
>              (tramp-copy-args            (("-P" "%p") ("-scp") ("-p" "%k")))
> ***************
> *** 642,649 ****
>              (tramp-password-end-of-line "xy") ;see docstring for "xy"
>              (tramp-default-port         22))
>        ("psftp" (tramp-login-program        "plink")
> !            (tramp-login-args           (("%h") ("-l" "%u") ("-P" "%p")
> !                                         ("-ssh")))
>              (tramp-remote-sh            "/bin/sh")
>              (tramp-copy-program         "pscp")
>              (tramp-copy-args            (("-P" "%p") ("-sftp") ("-p" "%k")))
> --- 642,649 ----
>              (tramp-password-end-of-line "xy") ;see docstring for "xy"
>              (tramp-default-port         22))
>        ("psftp" (tramp-login-program        "plink")
> !            (tramp-login-args           (("-l" "%u") ("-P" "%p")
> !                                         ("-ssh") ("%h")))
>              (tramp-remote-sh            "/bin/sh")
>              (tramp-copy-program         "pscp")
>              (tramp-copy-args            (("-P" "%p") ("-sftp") ("-p" "%k")))
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
>    
> > Thanks,
> >
> > --jonathan
> >      
> Best regards, Michael.
>    
Michael,

Thank you for your attention to this. As it turns out, the patch is not 
actually necessary. Your original suggestion to check my putty settings 
was absolutely correct. As it turns out, my Default Settings in putty 
for hostname were "rh1.orc.com." My guess is that putty somehow prefers 
the default setting and tramples (pun intended) whatever tramp is 
actually trying to send to plink.

Thanks again,

--jonathan