From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Robert J. Chassell" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Integrate Tramp Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 20:21:40 +0000 (UTC) Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <200206171631.g5HGVBM13861@aztec.santafe.edu> <200206190223.g5J2NlQ15963@aztec.santafe.edu> <5xd6unqw5g.fsf@kfs2.cua.dk> <200206210940.g5L9ei720274@aztec.santafe.edu> Reply-To: bob@rattlesnake.com NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1024691050 2738 127.0.0.1 (21 Jun 2002 20:24:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 20:24:10 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 17LUx0-0000i3-00 for ; Fri, 21 Jun 2002 22:24:10 +0200 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 17LVPJ-0006Ji-00 for ; Fri, 21 Jun 2002 22:53:26 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 17LUx0-0002O1-00; Fri, 21 Jun 2002 16:24:10 -0400 Original-Received: from megalith.rattlesnake.com ([140.186.114.245] helo=localhost) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 17LUuh-0002GL-00 for ; Fri, 21 Jun 2002 16:21:48 -0400 Original-Received: by rattlesnake.com via sendmail from stdin id (Debian Smail3.2.0.114) Fri, 21 Jun 2002 20:21:40 +0000 (UTC) Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.9 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:5073 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:5073 ... So Tramp will use telnet on that machine. And then the user will use an insecure transport channel, without really being very much aware of it. This is dangerous. I have always been assuming that tramp would tell me, quite vividly, what method I am using. (The autodetection might put the method into the file name or something like that.) I am now and want in the future to be very conscious of which kind of transport channel I am using. Hmmm.... if auto-detection takes place behind my back -- that is to say, I simply find-file somewhere and don't see that the transport channel is telnet, then I am stuck. I have to assum the worst. I hate to say it, but I think that auto-detection should add the name of the method to the filename, so I see and notice it when the filename changes during the connection process. -- Robert J. Chassell bob@rattlesnake.com Rattlesnake Enterprises http://www.rattlesnake.com