From: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>
To: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>
Cc: Help Gnu Emacs mailing list <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: TRAMP sudo method not asking for password
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2019 18:53:58 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87h8dseki1.fsf@mbork.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87pnsim2xu.fsf@gmx.de>
On 2019-01-27, at 18:21, Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de> wrote:
> Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com> writes:
>
> Hi Robert,
>
>>> Indeed, the Emacs manual doesn't speak about authentication at all. I've
>>> added a new section about to the manual, this might be a
>>> beginner. Pushed to the emacs-26 branch.
>>
>> It does talk about authentication, but the path is tortuous. It goes
>> from 'Sending Mail' to smtpmail to auth-source. Perhaps a link to the
>> auth-source 'Help for users' node would be best, as that describes the
>> .authinfo format extensively.
>
> The link was to the top node of auth.info, but you're right: 'Help for
> users' is the better choice. I've updated.
>
> The disadvantage is, that this node does not speak about the other auth
> backends, but I guess we could live with this in the Emacs manual.
Thanks a lot to both of you!
Best,
--
Marcin Borkowski
http://mbork.pl
prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-01-28 17:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-01-12 16:36 TRAMP sudo method not asking for password Marcin Borkowski
2019-01-12 17:09 ` Marcin Borkowski
2019-01-12 17:15 ` Marcin Borkowski
2019-01-12 18:44 ` Michael Albinus
2019-01-16 19:06 ` Marcin Borkowski
2019-01-16 22:42 ` Michael Albinus
2019-01-20 5:59 ` Marcin Borkowski
2019-01-20 10:52 ` Michael Albinus
2019-01-24 17:11 ` Marcin Borkowski
2019-01-26 15:50 ` Michael Albinus
2019-01-27 15:21 ` Robert Pluim
2019-01-27 17:21 ` Michael Albinus
2019-01-28 17:53 ` Marcin Borkowski [this message]
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