From: Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>
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: Sun, 27 Jan 2019 16:21:51 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2y376p1m8.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877eerifjx.fsf@gmx.de> (Michael Albinus's message of "Sat, 26 Jan 2019 16:50:26 +0100")
Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de> writes:
> Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl> writes:
>
> Hi Marcin,
>
>>> There are several other packages using auth-source, none of them have a
>>> respective hint in the Emacs manual. I don't see why Tramp needs an
>>> exception.
>>
>> Until recently I had no idea about the existence of auth-source...
>
> 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.
Robert
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-01-27 15:21 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 [this message]
2019-01-27 17:21 ` Michael Albinus
2019-01-28 17:53 ` Marcin Borkowski
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