From: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>
To: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>
Cc: Help Gnu Emacs mailing list <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: TRAMP sudo method not asking for password
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2019 18:11:36 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <874l9y7zg7.fsf@mbork.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <871s578utc.fsf@gmx.de>
On 2019-01-20, at 11:52, Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de> wrote:
> Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl> writes:
>
> Hi Marcin,
>
>>> Why should it? Tramp uses auth-source, which has different backends. It
>>> is not only the .authinfo file which gets the passwords, other backends
>>> like the Secret Service API behave similar.
>>
>> Well, I didn't know anything about it. (Perhaps not reading the TRAMP
>> manual was a mistake... Still, just a mention of auth-source *might* be
>> a good idea when discussing TRAMP in the Emacs manual. IDK.)
>
> There are several other packages using auth-source, none of them have a
> respective hint in the Emacs manual. I don't see why Tramp needs an
> exception.
Until recently I had no idea about the existence of auth-source...
>
> Reading the Tramp manual shall be sufficient.
OK, I will do it and I'll see whether that helps.
>>>> 1. Am I the only one that thinks that this change could be made a bit
>>>> more prominent? Like using something like yes-or-no-p (as opposed to
>>>> y-or-n-p) by default, for example? Saving passwords to a plain text
>>>> file is something big, which should not happen by accident, right?
>>>
>>> Again, we don't speak about plain files only. And yes, yes-or-no-p might
>>> fit better. This must be changed in auth-source.el.
>>>
>>> Let's wait for some few days, and if nobody objects, I'll change
>>> accordingly.
>>
>> Thanks for the change (if it takes place), and for your time answering
>> my questions.
>
> I've written the bug report (a feature request rather) bug#34145.
Thanks, and best regards,
--
Marcin Borkowski
http://mbork.pl
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-01-24 17:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-01-12 16:36 TRAMP sudo method not asking for password Marcin Borkowski
2019-01-12 17:09 ` Marcin Borkowski
2019-01-12 17:15 ` Marcin Borkowski
2019-01-12 18:44 ` Michael Albinus
2019-01-16 19:06 ` Marcin Borkowski
2019-01-16 22:42 ` Michael Albinus
2019-01-20 5:59 ` Marcin Borkowski
2019-01-20 10:52 ` Michael Albinus
2019-01-24 17:11 ` Marcin Borkowski [this message]
2019-01-26 15:50 ` Michael Albinus
2019-01-27 15:21 ` Robert Pluim
2019-01-27 17:21 ` Michael Albinus
2019-01-28 17:53 ` Marcin Borkowski
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