From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tim X Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Enlarging the question Was: Re: Does pclcvs support ssh protocol ? Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2008 12:21:35 +1100 Organization: Rapt Technologies Message-ID: <877igw5uxs.fsf@lion.rapttech.com.au> 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 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1203730854 9729 80.91.229.12 (23 Feb 2008 01:40:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2008 01:40:54 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Feb 23 02:41:18 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 1JSjO9-00008W-VP for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 23 Feb 2008 02:41:18 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JSjNZ-00025K-Ft for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 22 Feb 2008 20:40:41 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!sn-xt-sjc-03!sn-xt-sjc-09!sn-post-sjc-02!sn-post-sjc-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:uyGxhu6qcU95gNGJgMcypf0HtxY= Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Original-Lines: 31 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:156405 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:51776 Archived-At: Pierre Lorenzon writes: > From: Mike Mattie > > Yes ! do you mean that tramp for instance uses ssh-agent ? It > might be ; I didn't examine the code to answer this question > ... I think you have things mixed up conceptually. Tramp doesn't need to know anything about ssh-agent. It simply tries to make a connection over ssh and ssh-agent handles all the authentication stuff with ssh - tramp doesn't need to know about ssh-agent. I've been using an agent with ssh for a very long time, but I think tramp will prompt for a password if ssh askes for it. However, since I have ssh-agent, this never needs to happen with the work I do, so I could be wrong. Someone else mentioned that if your using ssh, then really you should use ssh-agent. apart from making things a lot simpler, it means your not typing passwords everytime you make an ssh connection. Typing less passwords means (usually) better security simply because there is less opportunity for them to be seen/stolen. Setup ssh-agent and the necessary keys and all your questions about pcl-cvs and ssh will probably just become irrelevant. Tim -- tcross (at) rapttech dot com dot au