George Oliver <[email protected]> writes: > hi, I'm running into problems trying to use Tramp for the first time > with native Windows Emacs, it seems to get stuck at a password > prompt. I've read various examples of successful use with Windows, but > nothing with native Emacs and key authentication, so I'm hoping > someone can help. > > Here is the relevant part of my .emacs: > > (setq tramp-default-method "plinkx") > (prefer-coding-system 'utf-8) > (setq tramp-password-end-of-line "\r\n") > (setq tramp-verbose 10) > > I have a Putty session saved with my host, user, and private key. Then > in Emacs when I 'C-x C-f /<session-name>:<file>', it seems to open the > connection, then in the minibuffer is: > > Passphrase for /plinkx:ergodic:gmk:
This looks strange: three times ":". > I can type the password, but it immediately asks for it again; I have > to kill the Emacs process manually at this point, C-g leaves an > unresponsive Emacs. > > I can connect OK from the Windows shell, e.g. > > C:\Documents and Settings\george\My Documents>plink ergodic-gmk > Using username "gmk". > Passphrase for key "imported-openssh-key": > Last login: Thu Jun 2 01:49:23 2011 from 184.77.70.234 > ←]0;gmk@labs: ~gmk@labs:~$ Here you have "ergodic-gmk". Although using Pageant helped you (as proposed in another message), it is a little bit confusing here. > thanks for any help, George Best regards, Michael. _______________________________________________ Tramp-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/tramp-devel
