Re: tramp (2.6.2.29.2 nil/nil); wrong-type-argument "stringp #[0 \\300\\207 [my actual password.."

[Michael Albinus]

Ethan Glasser-Camp <ethan.glasser.camp@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi! I tried this:

Hi Ethan,

> Then did C-x C-f /sudo:: RET. Again, I was asked for a label but not a
> password, and no `ethan@black-diamond` entry was created in my Login
> keyring. The contents of the `*Messages*` buffer were the same as
> before.

Finally, I could reproduce your problem, after I had created (manually)
the "root@gandalf" item in the "Login" collection. "gandalf2 is my local host.

Digging further, I've found bug#49289 <https://debbugs.gnu.org/49289>.
It isn't only for this problem, but also for the cascading secret
function, which I have bypassed by the modified auth-info-password ...

Reading the bug messages, I've seen it was fixed only for the netrc
backend. Oh. I've applied a similar patch to the other backends, secrets
and plstore, and voilà, problem solved :-)

I've pushed the appended patch to Emacs. This includes also the revert
of my previous auth-info-password change. If you like, you could try to
apply it to your Emacs 29 sources. Otherwise, you'll get the fix with
Emacs 30.

Thanks for your patient testing!

> Ethan

Best regards, Michael.

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