bug#55555: 28.1; Tramp prompting for password even with an existing .authinfo.gpg file

[Thierry Volpiatto <thievol@posteo.net>]

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Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de> writes:

> Thierry Volpiatto <thievol@posteo.net> writes:
>
>> Hi Michael,
>
> Hi Thierry,
>
>>> 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 isn't compatible. But for a while, using both Rmacs 29 and Emacs <29,
> you could keep both entries in .authinfo.gpg.

Ok, so I will keep both entries, thanks.

-- 
Thierry

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