From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Michael Powe Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: TRAMP and scp Date: 19 Oct 2003 13:16:11 GMT Organization: The Hospice of the Mind Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1066571197 20395 80.91.224.253 (19 Oct 2003 13:46:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2003 13:46:37 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Oct 19 15:46:35 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1ABDtD-0003NW-00 for ; Sun, 19 Oct 2003 15:46:35 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1ABDs8-0001wO-A0 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 19 Oct 2003 09:45:28 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!pln-w!spln!dex!extra.newsguy.com!newsp.newsguy.com!enews1 Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 26 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: p-733.newsdawg.com X-PGP: http://www.trollope.org/pgp.txt X-Home-Page: http://www.trollope.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.08 (Gnus v5.8.0) Emacs/21.2 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:117409 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:13340 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:13340 i installed tramp and when i try to access a remote file, i get the known error message Out of band method `scp' not applicable for remote shell asking for a password i don't understand this. the default behavior is for scp to ask for the ssh password to log in at the remote. scp works fine from the command line. why is there an issue with this behavior here? if i use ange-ftp, i get prompted for the password & that works fine. aside from obvious security issues, i want to edit files on a server that has only ssh access for logins, no ftp or telnet &c, and i'd rather do it from here than in a terminal window. i've seen some discussion of the error message which seems to imply that it is a problem with scp. that doesn't make sense to me. it's no more "interactive" than ftp with regard to entering a password. can someone explain to me the difference? thanks. mp -- cat: /home/powem/.signature: No such file or directory