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From: Xavier Maillard <xma@gnu.org>
To: Thierry Volpiatto <thierry.volpiatto@gmail.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Enlarging the question Was: Re: Does pclcvs support ssh protocol ?
Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2008 03:00:16 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200802230200.m1N20GCk007421@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r6f58i1q.fsf@gmail.com> (message from Thierry Volpiatto on Fri, 22 Feb 2008 10:19:29 +0100)


   Pierre Lorenzon <devel@pollock-nageoire.net> writes:

   > From: Mike Mattie <codermattie@gmail.com>
   > Subject: Re: Does pclcvs support ssh protocol ?
   > Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 23:11:56 -0800
   >
   >> On Fri, 22 Feb 2008 07:54:09 +0100 (CET)
   >> Pierre Lorenzon <devel@pollock-nageoire.net> wrote:
   >> 
   >> > From: Michael Hoffman <b3i4old02@sneakemail.com>
   >> > Subject: Re: Does pclcvs support ssh protocol ?
   >> > Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 20:31:54 +0000
   >> > 
   >> > > Pierre Lorenzon wrote:
   >> > > 
   >> > > >   Notice that I still do not have the answer to my question :
   >> > > >   "yes or not is this password transaction implemented in
   >> > > >   pcl-cvs like in tramp ?"
   >> > > 
   >> > > Now the question has changed.
   >> > 
   >> > 
   >> >   Not really ! 
   >> > 
   >> >   Pierre
   >> > 
   >> > 
   >> > 
   >> 
   >> The answer is clearly ssh-agent. There are a large number of security issues regarding keys,
   >> memory locking, timed expiration, secure entry, etc. Emacs doesn't need to jump through all these
   >> hoops when ssh-agent,pin-entry,gpg do this sort of thing
   >> correctly with a robust code-base.
   >
   >   Yes ! do you mean that tramp for instance uses ssh-agent ? It
   >   might be ; I didn't examine the code to answer this question
   >   ...

   Yes tramp use ssh-agent, if ssh-agent is started; if not you are prompted for a
   passphrase (you have to create keys and use keys system, not password).
   I don't use cvs for my files, i use svn.
   With svn if you do your checkout throught ssh, and ssh-agent+keys system is
   enabled, when you commit the change in your file, svn use automaticly ssh with
   tramp.

Do you have any good tuto to set this up ? I am one of these lazy
people who'd rather type their password every two minutes ;)
Ssh-agent could save me some precious time. Lat time I read about
this, it was a pain (for me) to understand.

AFAIK, depending on how one is starting GNU Emacs, the setup
changes. I am mostly working from the linux console, GNU Emacs is
launched through a screen server session which I am connecting
with the help of emacsclient.

I even have a system account which default login shell is
/usr/bin/emacs thus I do not see how ssh-agent could be setup in
this case.

Regards

	Xavier
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-02-23  2:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-02-21  5:36 Does pclcvs support ssh protocol ? Pierre Lorenzon
2008-02-21 11:38 ` Michael Hoffman
2008-02-21 16:02   ` Pierre Lorenzon
2008-02-21 16:15     ` Michael Albinus
2008-02-21 16:21     ` Michael Hoffman
2008-02-21 20:15       ` Pierre Lorenzon
2008-02-21 20:31         ` Michael Hoffman
2008-02-22  6:54           ` Pierre Lorenzon
2008-02-22  7:11             ` Mike Mattie
2008-02-22  8:39               ` Enlarging the question Was: " Pierre Lorenzon
2008-02-22  9:19                 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2008-02-23  2:00                   ` Xavier Maillard
2008-02-23  2:00                   ` Xavier Maillard [this message]
     [not found]                   ` <mailman.7811.1203734034.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-02-24  7:42                     ` Tim X
2008-03-19  1:00                       ` Xavier Maillard
     [not found]                 ` <mailman.7780.1203672972.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-02-23  1:29                   ` Tim X
2008-02-23  6:34                   ` Stefan Monnier
     [not found]               ` <mailman.7778.1203669624.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-02-23  1:21                 ` Tim X
     [not found] ` <mailman.7737.1203593911.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-02-22  1:19   ` Tim X
2008-02-22  2:00 ` Xavier Maillard
2008-02-22  7:16   ` Pierre Lorenzon

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