From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Michael Albinus Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: tramp and ssh-agent / ssh-add Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2008 17:30:34 +0200 Message-ID: <87ve348c11.fsf@gmx.de> References: <87zlsg8ghk.fsf@gmx.de> <18415.41672.626968.72480@tfkp07.physik.uni-erlangen.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1206890976 21878 80.91.229.12 (30 Mar 2008 15:29:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2008 15:29:36 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: "Roland Winkler" Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Mar 30 17:30:07 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JfzTr-0000fM-D0 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 30 Mar 2008 17:29:59 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JfzTF-0004XE-Fu for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 30 Mar 2008 11:29:21 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JfzSs-0004SQ-Nl for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Mar 2008 11:28:58 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JfzSq-0004RC-Rc for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Mar 2008 11:28:58 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JfzSq-0004R7-NY for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Mar 2008 11:28:56 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JfzSq-0000gQ-B0 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Mar 2008 11:28:56 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 30 Mar 2008 15:28:54 -0000 Original-Received: from p57A23113.dip0.t-ipconnect.de (EHLO arthur.local) [87.162.49.19] by mail.gmx.net (mp016) with SMTP; 30 Mar 2008 17:28:54 +0200 X-Authenticated: #3708877 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1/c/4wfjXXcT5DExuIKgUB8f2tcmLQmuud46gEzsE VQrwPabVFn0GTW In-Reply-To: <18415.41672.626968.72480@tfkp07.physik.uni-erlangen.de> (Roland Winkler's message of "Sun, 30 Mar 2008 16:25:12 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:52842 Archived-At: "Roland Winkler" writes: >> Tramp 2.0 does not offer such a hook. > > Would you be able to add one? I know at least one person who would > greatly appreciate it. :-) > And if its purpose (one of its possible purposes) was properly > documented, I could well imagine that more people would like to use > it. Not for Tramp 2.0. It doesn't see new features; just bug fixes will be provided for it. > (I know that tramp is intended to provide a general scheme for file > transfer. Are there other schemes besides beside ssh that use an > agent like ssh? Gpg comes with an agent. But I guess that this is a > different story.) There are also plink/pscp, which use pageant as agent. All of them from the PuTTY package. However, what I would like to have is a general identity handling mechanism in Emacs. This shouldn't be restricted to Tramp only. There shall be interfaces to ssh-agent, to the Gnome and KDE keyring managers, to gpg, etc. So I'm not convinced yet to start a Tramp-only solution. password.el, which is used by Tramp, is also no own development; it comes from Gnus. > Thanks, > > Roland Best regards, Michael.