In article <50944d4c-7190-41f4-90ec-17755ab0b61d@k36g2000pri.googlegroups.com>, À¯×°×² wrote: > On Dec 20, 9:45 am, Barry Margolin wrote: > > In article > > , > > > > > > > >  À¯×°×² wrote: > > > On Dec 19, 1:38 pm, Barry Margolin wrote: > > > > In article > > > > <97c43290-2786-4b18-aaa8-429005829...@s9g2000prm.googlegroups.com>, > > > > > >  À¯×°×² wrote: > > > > > Can anyone tell me if it's possible to direct tramp to use a > > > > > particular set of ssh keys when connecting to a particular server? I'm > > > > > trying to use scp with the equivalent of the -i option, what I tried > > > > > below just seems to confuse tramp, is there some other way I should be > > > > > doing this? > > > > > > > (add-to-list 'tramp-default-method-alist > > > > >               '("remote_server" "" "scp -i /Users/my_user/.ssh/ > > > > > my_key")) > > > > > > Why not use the IdentityFile directives in ~/.ssh/config? > > > > > I'm already using a set of keys for regular ssh login, and there's a > > > passphrase on that set. I was trying to create a second set > > > specifically for tramp to use, with no passphrase and restricted > > > permissions on the server side. So far as I know, I can only provide a > > > single IdentityFile per host in ssh/config -- do you know of any other > > > ways to automatically distinguish the proper keys for tramp to use > > > with my server? > > > > I think you have to define a new method. > > > > (defvar my-scp-extra-args '("-i" "/Users/my_user/.ssh/my_key")) > > (let* ((scp-method (assoc "scp" tramp-methods)) > >        (new-method (copy-tree (cdr scp-method))) > >        (login-args (assoc 'tramp-login-args new-method)) > >        (copy-args (assoc 'tramp-copy-args new-method))) > >   (setf (cadr login-args) > >         `(,@my-scp-extra-args ,@(cadr login-args)) > >         (cadr copy-args) > >         `(,@my-scp-extra-args ,@(cadr copy-args))) > >   (push `("myscp" . ,new-method) tramp-methods)) > > > > Then set the default method for remote_server to "myscp". > > Thanks for this! I'm going to ask a fairly stupid follow-up question. > I put this in my emacs, but it raised this error "void variable tramp- > methods". I thought maybe you had to quote tramp-methods, but after I > did it started raising "Wrong type argument: listp, tramp-methods". > I'm not quite sure where to go from here. If I'm running 22.3.1, I > shouldn't have to have (require 'tramp) at the top of my .emacs, > should I? I added that, for the heck of it, and it started complaining > about other tramp-related variables being undefined elsewhere in > my .emacs file. > > Sorry to chump out, hoping for a little more help... You probably need to put: (load "tramp") before this, so that the variable will be defined. It's not normally defined until tramp is auto-loaded. -- Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu Arlington, MA *** PLEASE post questions in newsgroups, not directly to me *** *** PLEASE don't copy me on replies, I'll read them in the group ***