Re: Getting password-cache.el to work with tramp

[Ted Zlatanov]

On Thu, 06 Aug 2009 14:51:26 +0100 "N.Davis" <nd51@leicester.ac.uk> wrote: 

ND>   I'm running emacs 22.3.1 which comes with tramp. I want to be able
ND> to edit files on a number of machines without being repeatedly being
ND> asked for passwords, without necessarily having to use ssh keys. Tramp
ND> "out of the box" repeatedly asks for (forgets) passwords. It looked
ND> like downloading password-cache.el was a good idea to fix this,
ND> however, it doesn't seem to work.
ND>   I put password-cache.el in the same directory as modes which are
ND> definitely picked up in the load-path.
ND>   I added (setq password-cache-expiry nil) to .emacs.
ND> I also tried adding
ND>   (setq password-cache t)

I use password-cache-expiry = 360000.

Also you may want to use Emacs 23.1 :)

23.1 has auth-source.el, which lets you have all your passwords in
~/.authinfo for Tramp, IMAP/POP/SMTP, HTTP, etc.

Ted