Turning off password prompting?

Turning off password prompting?

[Noah Evans]

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 Hey all,

I have a set of expect scripts that interact with various services to
launch a custom application on multiple servers, however when I do the
launch, comint-watch-for-password-prompt minibuffers pop up even though
expect is doing the password handling.

Looking at the source code and seeing how the hooks are installed I don't
see any way to turn password prompting off. Am I missing anything? If not
I'd like to propose adding a few millisecond delay that checks to see if
execution has continued past the password prompt. If so someone/something
has entered the password "behind Emacs' back" and there's no need to prompt.

Thoughts?

Noah

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Re: Turning off password prompting?

[Evgeny Roubinchtein]

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Does
  (remove-hook 'comint-output-filter-functions
'comint-watch-for-password-prompt)
fail to do what you want?

On Mon, Nov 7, 2016 at 3:54 PM, Noah Evans <noah.evans@gmail.com> wrote:

>  Hey all,
>
> I have a set of expect scripts that interact with various services to
> launch a custom application on multiple servers, however when I do the
> launch, comint-watch-for-password-prompt minibuffers pop up even though
> expect is doing the password handling.
>
> Looking at the source code and seeing how the hooks are installed I don't
> see any way to turn password prompting off. Am I missing anything? If not
> I'd like to propose adding a few millisecond delay that checks to see if
> execution has continued past the password prompt. If so someone/something
> has entered the password "behind Emacs' back" and there's no need to prompt.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Noah
>

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Re: Turning off password prompting?

[Noah Evans]

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It's mostly laziness. What I'd like is solution that lets me enter values
interactively in the minibuffer when I'm running interactively and have it
automatically run when I'm not. I do both in the same shell window.
Removing the hook *would* get rid of the problem, but my password would be
cleartext.

On Mon, Nov 7, 2016 at 2:37 PM Evgeny Roubinchtein <zhenya1007@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Does
>   (remove-hook 'comint-output-filter-functions
> 'comint-watch-for-password-prompt)
> fail to do what you want?
>
> On Mon, Nov 7, 2016 at 3:54 PM, Noah Evans <noah.evans@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>  Hey all,
>
> I have a set of expect scripts that interact with various services to
> launch a custom application on multiple servers, however when I do the
> launch, comint-watch-for-password-prompt minibuffers pop up even though
> expect is doing the password handling.
>
> Looking at the source code and seeing how the hooks are installed I don't
> see any way to turn password prompting off. Am I missing anything? If not
> I'd like to propose adding a few millisecond delay that checks to see if
> execution has continued past the password prompt. If so someone/something
> has entered the password "behind Emacs' back" and there's no need to prompt.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Noah
>
>
>

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Re: Turning off password prompting?

[Stefan Monnier]

> Looking at the source code and seeing how the hooks are installed I don't
> see any way to turn password prompting off. Am I missing anything? If not
> I'd like to propose adding a few millisecond delay that checks to see if
> execution has continued past the password prompt.

Sounds like a good idea.  And additionally, the minibuffer could
automatically be canceled when further output is received.


        Stefan