Re: run ssh in emacs

[torys.anderson@gmail.com (Tory S. Anderson)]

I forgot to mention, I also found this handy (although I might be able to forego it with the authinfo trick):

    ;Cache passwords for one hour
    (setq password-cache-expiry 3600)

With this you don't have to enter your password every few minutes...

Haines Brown <haines@histomat.net> writes:

> On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 02:42:23PM -0500, Tory S. Anderson wrote:
>
>> I do something similar (I think) with my web development, but I go
>>  about it differently. I am already in emacs on my local machine and
>>  use the `M-x shell` to then ssh into the remote machine. For file
>>  management, I Tramp set up to use SSH by default, and I've had
>>  success copying back and forth remote-to-local and vice versa that
>>  way. Using dired/tramp, I can just highlight a file and hit "C"
>>  (copy) and enter the local location, or the other way around. It
>>  works pretty well for me (I've replaced putty and Filezilla with
>>  emacs), and I was doing a split-screen local/remote just yesterday
>>  with it.
>> 
>> - Tory
>
> Thanks, Tory, that was a help. I was trying to run ssh from command
> prompt rather than shell. 
>
> Can I expand on my question with one that is a bit OT? I use ~/.netrc
> (despite the hazards) to automate log in to remote machines. However
> things seem to have changed over the years since I last used it. I have
> a stanza like this, where anon will be the name of remote machine on the
> LAN
>
>    machine root@anon
>         login root
>         password <password>
>
> When in Emacs I log into the remote machine with 
>
>    C-x C-f /root@anon:/home/user
>
> I am prompted for the password which is not automatically sent:
>
>    Password for /scpc:root@anon
>
> This "scpc" method is new to me. I tried putting into .netrc the machine
> value scpc.root@anon and scpc:root@anon, but still am prompted for the
> password. The Tramp manual and man netrc no help.
>
> Haines
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