From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Pierre Lorenzon Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Enlarging the question Was: Re: Does pclcvs support ssh protocol ? Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 09:39:51 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <20080222.093951.48490765.devel@pollock-nageoire.net> References: <20080222.075409.183050664.devel@pollock-nageoire.net> <20080221231156.6ee15c74@reforged> 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 1203669672 26120 80.91.229.12 (22 Feb 2008 08:41:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 08:41:12 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: codermattie@gmail.com Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Feb 22 09:41:33 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 1JSTT2-0005yk-Kj for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 22 Feb 2008 09:41:16 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JSTSX-0005cL-FI for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 22 Feb 2008 03:40:45 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JSTSB-0005a1-NU for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Feb 2008 03:40:23 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JSTS9-0005XT-EP for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Feb 2008 03:40:22 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JSTS7-0005XF-Qg for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Feb 2008 03:40:20 -0500 Original-Received: from mx20.gnu.org ([199.232.41.8]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JSTS7-0003nx-7w for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Feb 2008 03:40:19 -0500 Original-Received: from smtp20.orange.fr ([193.252.22.29]) by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JSTS5-0005Jn-O5 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Feb 2008 03:40:18 -0500 Original-Received: from me-wanadoo.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mwinf2018.orange.fr (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id E5CBE1C000BF for ; Fri, 22 Feb 2008 09:40:07 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (APuteaux-154-1-52-49.w81-249.abo.wanadoo.fr [81.249.3.49]) by mwinf2018.orange.fr (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id 985841C00042; Fri, 22 Feb 2008 09:40:07 +0100 (CET) X-ME-UUID: 20080222084007624.985841C00042@mwinf2018.orange.fr In-Reply-To: <20080221231156.6ee15c74@reforged> X-Mailer: Mew version 5.1 on Emacs 22.1 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) X-detected-kernel: by mx20.gnu.org: Linux 2.4-2.6 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:51763 Archived-At: From: Mike Mattie Subject: Re: Does pclcvs support ssh protocol ? Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 23:11:56 -0800 > On Fri, 22 Feb 2008 07:54:09 +0100 (CET) > Pierre Lorenzon wrote: > > > From: Michael Hoffman > > Subject: Re: Does pclcvs support ssh protocol ? > > Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 20:31:54 +0000 > > > > > Pierre Lorenzon wrote: > > > > > > > Notice that I still do not have the answer to my question : > > > > "yes or not is this password transaction implemented in > > > > pcl-cvs like in tramp ?" > > > > > > Now the question has changed. > > > > > > Not really ! > > > > Pierre > > > > > > > > The answer is clearly ssh-agent. There are a large number of security issues regarding keys, > memory locking, timed expiration, secure entry, etc. Emacs doesn't need to jump through all these > hoops when ssh-agent,pin-entry,gpg do this sort of thing > correctly with a robust code-base. Yes ! do you mean that tramp for instance uses ssh-agent ? It might be ; I didn't examine the code to answer this question ... Bests Pierre