Re: tramp: password prompt

[grossjoh@ls6.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (Kai Großjohann)]

Clemens Fischer <ino@despammed.com> writes:

> Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Grojohann) writes:
>
>> "Michael P. Soulier" <msoulier@storm.ca._nospam> writes:
>>
>>> [msoulier@tigger msoulier]$ ssh rabbit
>>> Enter passphrase for RSA key '/home/msoulier/.ssh/identity':
>>>
>>>     Tramp does not prompt me when this prompt comes up, it just times out.
>>> Also, I often get prompted twice when I am at work, once for the passcode,
>>> once for the remote user password. 
>>
>> Hm.  Recent versions of Tramp have a regular expression
>> tramp-password-prompt-regexp.  It seems that the default value should
>> work, but you never know...  Does it work to frob that variable?
>
> the situation changes, of course, if the users identity is rejected by
> the remote sshd, eg. because he tries to enter from a root account.
> although i don't see a specific reason to do so, sshd can be
> configured to reject anybody beeing root at home.

??

Can you expand on this?  I don't understand what you're trying to
say.

kai
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