Re: tramp doesn't authenticate with Pageant on Emacs 24 + Windows?

[Michael Albinus]

George Oliver <address@hidden> writes:

> hi, 

Hi,

> I think I've figured this out. The problem was I hadn't filled in the
> username in the auto-login feature of Putty. While this doesn't matter
> for Putty's connection and Pageant authentication, it does seem to
> matter for Tramp. 
>
> Not sure if this is a bug or not, but with autologin filled in Tramp
> is now working OK. 

Thanks for solving the riddle.

Could you (or somebody else) check this dependency? Is it for all PuTTY
based methods, or just for plinkx, which uses an existing session?

I would add a short note to Tramp's manual then.

Best regards, Michael.