Getting password-cache.el to work with tramp

Getting password-cache.el to work with tramp

[N.Davis]

Hi,
   I'm running emacs 22.3.1 which comes with tramp. I want to be able to 
   edit files on a number of machines without being repeatedly being 
asked for passwords, without necessarily having to use ssh keys. Tramp 
"out of the box" repeatedly asks for (forgets) passwords. It looked like 
downloading password-cache.el was a good idea to fix this, however, it 
doesn't seem to work.
   I put password-cache.el in the same directory as modes which are 
definitely picked up in the load-path.
   I added (setq password-cache-expiry nil) to .emacs.
I also tried adding
   (setq password-cache t)

I tried requring it and explicitly loading it too.

However, on starting emacs and trying to access remote files, it still 
repeatedly asks for passwords.

I have very little experience with including other .el files for emacs.

Is there something elementary/stupid I've failed to do here or does 
anyone have any pointers?

Thanks a lot,
Nick

Re: Getting password-cache.el to work with tramp

[Ted Zlatanov]

On Thu, 06 Aug 2009 14:51:26 +0100 "N.Davis" <nd51@leicester.ac.uk> wrote: 

ND>   I'm running emacs 22.3.1 which comes with tramp. I want to be able
ND> to edit files on a number of machines without being repeatedly being
ND> asked for passwords, without necessarily having to use ssh keys. Tramp
ND> "out of the box" repeatedly asks for (forgets) passwords. It looked
ND> like downloading password-cache.el was a good idea to fix this,
ND> however, it doesn't seem to work.
ND>   I put password-cache.el in the same directory as modes which are
ND> definitely picked up in the load-path.
ND>   I added (setq password-cache-expiry nil) to .emacs.
ND> I also tried adding
ND>   (setq password-cache t)

I use password-cache-expiry = 360000.

Also you may want to use Emacs 23.1 :)

23.1 has auth-source.el, which lets you have all your passwords in
~/.authinfo for Tramp, IMAP/POP/SMTP, HTTP, etc.

Ted

Re: Getting password-cache.el to work with tramp

[N.Davis]

Ted Zlatanov wrote:
>
> 
> I use password-cache-expiry = 360000.

Thanks for the reply, Ted. I tried this but it didn't help. :(
> 
> Also you may want to use Emacs 23.1 :)

Not sure if I can, due to dependencies, but I will try.

Regards,
Nick

Re: Getting password-cache.el to work with tramp

[Michael Albinus]

"N.Davis" <nd51@leicester.ac.uk> writes:

>> Also you may want to use Emacs 23.1 :)
>
> Not sure if I can, due to dependencies, but I will try.

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20070113 Debian/1.7.8-1sarge10

You seem to run Debian. There were some announcements recently, see
<http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.devel.emacsen/2530>.

> Regards,
> Nick

Best regards, Michael.