Michael Albinus writes: Hi Tino, > I'm very sorry, but this is a special case. Usually, we appreciate much > to run the tests with "emacs -Q". However, it happens often that I have > to debug Tramp problems which are related to cached properties, or > passwords. That's why Tramp neither loads cached properties, nor uses > auth-sources when Emacs is called with "-Q". FTR, I have documented this in the Tramp manual. See appended patch, pushed to the emacs-27 branch. Best regards, Michael.