> > A) Pickling the password cache > > > > To make the password cache permanent rather than expire when the emacs > > session ends, I gather I should use: > > > > password-cache-expiry nil > > > > I haven't a clue where to put this. Among other experiments, I tried > > to put into /.emacs > > > > (setq password-cache-expiry nil) > > > > but it had no effect. > > The password cache is only for a given Emacs session, it doesn't > survive session end. Tramp has no own password handling mechanism, it > let the underlying programs (ssh, ftp, ...) do the job. If you want to > have a password-less ssh connection you should read about ssh-agent.
One of my difficulties has been using the tramp manual. To illustrate this, here's a quote from it: > Passwords are not saved permanently, that means the password caching > is limited to the lifetime of your Emacs session. You can influence > the lifetime of password caching by customizing the variable > password-cache-expiry. The value is the number of seconds how long > passwords are cached. Setting it to nil disables the expiration. In context, the string "password-cash-expiry nil" would have to be for tramp or emacs. I see no place one would put it for tramp, and so I assume it is an emacs lisp expression. If I knew this was meant to be part of an emacs lisp expression, I would then know it was irrelevant to a tramp list ;-) > > B) Adding a directory to the hostname > > Sorry, but here I am lost. > > Could you, please, open "/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/" and check in the > listing whether there is a directory "html"? If yes, check ownership > and access rights of that directory. The tramp manual does not state explicitly one can't provide a URL for a directory for a text file, and otherwise, the word "file" in the unix world can mean either. True, all the examples happen to use a URL for a file. In the directory on the ftp server in which I arrive via tramp, there is the "html" directory that I use. It is drwxrwxrwx usr1066:usr1066. Since I'm "usr1066," I should have no difficulty accessing that directory. Your question implies I should in fact be able to access it, but others appear to say, no. I tried [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/html, but tramp can't see the html directory. I suspect I need to figure out the path to that directory by first running /[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/ and note the steps I need to take to get into html. > > C) I'd like to set up an alias so that I don't have to type in the > > entire "[EMAIL PROTECTED]:" each time. So I tried in > > /etc/ssh/ssh_config to add a stanza before the system wide default > > stanza, such as this: This is resolved, thanks. I ended up defining a variable in emacs because that resulted in the least typing: C-x C-f $target. Thanks for all the help. I did file up and downloads from the server today as an exercise, and it worked very well. Haines Brown _______________________________________________ Tramp-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/tramp-devel
