Re: EShell tips on SSH?

[Wenshan Ren <renws1990@gmail.com>]

On Tuesday, January 15, 2013 6:38:48 PM UTC+11, Michael Albinus wrote:
> Wenshan Ren <renws1990@gmail.com> writes:
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> > Hi,
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> Hi,
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> > I manage a few VMs via SSH. As an Emacs user, I'm considering to get
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> > everything done without leaving Emacs.
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> > So far I've met two problems:
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> > 1. ssh -A
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> >    ssh -A does agent forwarding, but I can't find the EShell
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> > equivalent by searching the Emacs Info.
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> >    How do you achieve the same effect of ssh -A in Emacs?
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> If you use the remote file name syntax, the underlying operations are
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> directed to Tramp. You could redefine Tramp's method definition in order
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> to add "-A" to the ssh call. See variable `tramp-methods'.
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> The better solution would be to add the following entry to your
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> ~/.ssh/config:
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> Host remotehost
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> 	ForwardAgent	yes
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> > 2. cd /
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> >    After `cd /ssh:username@host', `cd /' will change directory to / of
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> > my local machine.
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> >    Is there any way to make EShell behave like a ordinary bash sshed
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> > to a remote machine?
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> Eshell is designed that file names used by "cd" work as everywhere else
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> in Emacs. The usual workaround "*cd /" to apply the corresponding
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> external command does not work, because "cd" is not related to an
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> executable file, but a shell built-in. What you ask for does not seem to
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> be possible in eshell yet. Maybe we should add a new eshell command
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> "chroot". Something like
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> chroot /ssh:username@host:/
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> Feel free to raise a change request towards Emacs/eshell via
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> `report-emacs-bug'.
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> > Thanks and regards,
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> > Wenshan
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> Best regards, Michael.

Thanks for your reply, it really makes sense to me and I will raise a change request.


- Wenshan