From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Roland Winkler" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: tramp and ssh-agent / ssh-add Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2008 17:38:46 +0200 Message-ID: <18415.46086.614720.198879@tfkp07.physik.uni-erlangen.de> References: <87zlsg8ghk.fsf@gmx.de> <18415.41672.626968.72480@tfkp07.physik.uni-erlangen.de> <87ve348c11.fsf@gmx.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1206891557 23609 80.91.229.12 (30 Mar 2008 15:39:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2008 15:39:17 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Michael Albinus Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Mar 30 17:39:48 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 1JfzdM-0003eC-Gb for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 30 Mar 2008 17:39:48 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Jfzck-00025z-Gf for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 30 Mar 2008 11:39:10 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JfzcR-00025L-UT for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Mar 2008 11:38:51 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JfzcQ-000253-IP for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Mar 2008 11:38:51 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JfzcQ-000250-Aq for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Mar 2008 11:38:50 -0400 Original-Received: from tfkpsv.physik.uni-erlangen.de ([131.188.164.197]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JfzcQ-0002DV-21 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Mar 2008 11:38:50 -0400 Original-Received: from tfkp07.physik.uni-erlangen.de (tfkp07.physik.uni-erlangen.de [131.188.164.207]) by tfkpsv.physik.uni-erlangen.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 231D121722; Sun, 30 Mar 2008 17:38:47 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: <87ve348c11.fsf@gmx.de> X-Mailer: VM 8.0.9 under Emacs 22.2.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.4-2.6 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:52843 Archived-At: On Sun Mar 30 2008 Michael Albinus wrote: > > (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. That's a very good point. With more programs using a similar approach, it would be nice if this could be done in a coherent way. (Personally, I do not know anything about Gnome and KDE.) Should this discussion be continued on emacs-devel? (I do not know about xemacs.) Roland