Subject: Re: bug#75746: 31.0.50; Can't get password promote from plink 0.82
From: Michael Albinus <[email-masked]>
To: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked], [email-masked], [email-masked]
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2025 15:29:49 +0100
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

Version: 30.2

>> If I call the very same command in a native cmd.exe terminal, evrything
>> works as expected. And so it did inside Emacs prior PuTTY 0.82.
>
> This was a deliberate behaviour change in 0.82, described in the
> following link, which also describes how to restore the old behaviour.
> https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/wishlist/windows-stdio-prompts.html
>
> The proposed option works as expected.

I've adapted the call of plink, pscp, and psftp accordingly. This
requires now at least PuTTY 0.82.

Pushed to the master branch. It will appear also with Tramp 2.7.2.2 on
GNU ELPA, later this month. Closing the bug

Best regards, Michael.