From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Harry Putnam Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Using tramp from Cygwin Emacs Date: Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:23:06 -0600 Organization: Still searching... Message-ID: <87ws24k6o5.fsf@newsguy.com> References: <4AF2B6E1.7010202@gmx.de> <83hbt8bxv0.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1257456488 28994 80.91.229.12 (5 Nov 2009 21:28:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2009 21:28:08 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 05 22:28:01 2009 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 1N69s1-0005jj-4M for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:27:53 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:59414 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1N69s0-0002BG-Jx for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:27:52 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1N69nw-0007KI-6n for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:23:40 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1N69ns-0007F6-10 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:23:39 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=32776 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1N69nr-0007Ev-Na for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:23:35 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:57414) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1N69nr-0007Xz-DE for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:23:35 -0500 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1N69nm-0003Z9-L8 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:23:30 +0100 Original-Received: from c-98-215-178-110.hsd1.in.comcast.net ([98.215.178.110]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:23:30 +0100 Original-Received: from reader by c-98-215-178-110.hsd1.in.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:23:30 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 16 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-98-215-178-110.hsd1.in.comcast.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.1.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Q4+bwyXhPLAkR/1foTgpePo9ZbU= X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:69513 Archived-At: "KARR, DAVID (ATTCINW)" writes: > I believe I've tried using the Cygwin ssh, but I appear to get the same > result, even bypassing tramp. I tried just using "eshell" and doing > "ssh " (and I'm sure that this is using Cygwin's openssh > package). After entering the password, it just redisplayed the password > prompt. I'm using the same credentials that are working fine with > "putty". It seems like this isn't an Emacs problem, or even a Cygwin > problem (I can repeat the same symptom just using Putty's Plink), but > perhaps something about the configuration of the SSH server. I don't > know enough about it to be sure, but my testing seems to point to that. You might use the ssh with -vv and see something informative. I've had problems where the remote shell login hands out stuff ssh does not like. And might even cause it to fail. Its a slim chance for sure but might give a clue of somekind.