Subject: bug#55555: 28.1; Tramp prompting for password even with an existing .authinfo.gpg file

From: Thierry Volpiatto <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 21 May 2022 19:31:01 +0000

Michael Albinus <[email-masked]> writes:

>    For the methods ‘doas’, ‘sudo’ and ‘sudoedit’ the password of the
> user requesting the connection is needed, and not the password of the
> target user.  If these connections happen on the local host, an entry
> with the local user and local host is used:
>
>      machine HOST port sudo login USER password secret

Unfortunately this is not working, thus it is crashing emacs.
Will try to investigate later.

Thanks.

-- 
Thierry