help with sftp

help with sftp

[olastro]

I've tried all. But of course not the solution.

I'm trying to use sftp in this installation
GNU Emacs 24.3.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) of 2013-03-17 on MARVIN

- tried to make ssh keys (cant find a proper 'ls' command)
- tried with cygwin ("ssh_askpass" could not be found)
- mappes server as drive with ExpanDrive (cant reach directories outside home-dir)


Anyone out there with a plain explanation of how to do things? Would be great if its from scratch, seems like I need the teaspoon method.

GOAL:
connect to an server (actually two different) with SFTP and edit files. As simple as that.


regards
Ola St

Re: help with sftp

[Jean Magnan de Bornier]

olastro@gmail.com wrote :

| I've tried all. But of course not the solution.
>
| I'm trying to use sftp in this installation
| GNU Emacs 24.3.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) of 2013-03-17 on MARVIN
>
| - tried to make ssh keys (cant find a proper 'ls' command)
| - tried with cygwin ("ssh_askpass" could not be found)
| - mappes server as drive with ExpanDrive (cant reach directories 
| outside home-dir)
>
>
| Anyone out there with a plain explanation of how to do things? Would
| be great if its from scratch, seems like I need the teaspoon method.
>
| GOAL:
| connect to an server (actually two different) with SFTP and edit files. 
| As simple as that.
>
>
| regards
| Ola St

Hi Ola,

I have a little function in my .emacs:

(defun cez ()
"Connexion ftp avec junon dans emacs"
(interactive)
(find-file "/sftp:[user]@[server]:~/")
)

Replace [user] with your login and [server] with your server name. ;-) 

so that hitting M-x cez in emacs opens a connexion and dired shows me the
files and I can edit them.

It is a good thing to set up ssh encryption so no password is asked. 

So you need dired mode in emacs and ssh setup. 
-- 
jean

Re: help with sftp

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2013 05:29:32 -0700 (PDT)
> From: olastro@gmail.com
> 
> I've tried all. But of course not the solution.
> 
> I'm trying to use sftp in this installation
> GNU Emacs 24.3.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) of 2013-03-17 on MARVIN
> 
> - tried to make ssh keys (cant find a proper 'ls' command)
> - tried with cygwin ("ssh_askpass" could not be found)
> - mappes server as drive with ExpanDrive (cant reach directories outside home-dir)
> 
> 
> Anyone out there with a plain explanation of how to do things? Would be great if its from scratch, seems like I need the teaspoon method.
> 
> GOAL:
> connect to an server (actually two different) with SFTP and edit files. As simple as that.

Start by installing PuTTY, which includes psftp.exe.

Then use puttygen.exe from the PuTTY package to generate keys.  The
procedure is explained in detail in the PuTTY Help, under "Using
public keys for SSH authentication".  When you have the keys, you will
need to configure the servers to accept your public key -- this is
also described in the PuTTY Help.

Then configure PuTTY for connecting to both servers, by logging once
into each one of the servers with putty and answering YES to PuTTY's
question of whether to accept the server's host key.

Thereafter, you should be able to use psftp via Tramp.  It is
advisable to launch Pageant (part of PuTTY) when your computer starts,
and add your key(s) to it, so that all the authentications after that
will be automatic and won't ask you to type your passphrase for each
login.

Re: help with sftp

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 05.04.2013 um 14:29 schrieb olastro@gmail.com:

> I've tried all. But of course not the solution.

You need an external application on MS: PuTTY. It has all ingredients you need, even very helpful and complete documentation.

--
Greetings

  Pete

We have to expect it, otherwise we would be surprised.

Re: help with sftp

[J. David Boyd]

Jean Magnan de Bornier <jean@bornier.net> writes:

>
> Hi Ola,
>
> I have a little function in my .emacs:
>
> (defun cez ()
> "Connexion ftp avec junon dans emacs"
> (interactive)
> (find-file "/sftp:[user]@[server]:~/")
> )
>
> Replace [user] with your login and [server] with your server name. ;-) 
>
> so that hitting M-x cez in emacs opens a connexion and dired shows me the
> files and I can edit them.
>
> It is a good thing to set up ssh encryption so no password is asked. 
>
> So you need dired mode in emacs and ssh setup. 

This is a really great idea, thanks!

Dave