Subject: bug#75746: 31.0.50; Can't get password promote from plink 0.82

From: Michael Albinus <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2025 14:29:49 +0100

Michael Albinus <[email-masked]> writes:

> The following message has been sent to the PuTTY developers

And here's the answer

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From: Jacob Nevins <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: [putty] plink ceased to show prompts since release 0.82
To: Michael Albinus <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked]
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2025 13:01:12 +0000 (1 minute, 3 seconds ago)
Reply-To: [email-masked]
Mail-Followup-To: [email-masked], Michael Albinus
 <[email-masked]>

Michael Albinus writes:
> In order to make this happen, Emacs opens internally a cmd.exe buffer. In
> this buffer, a command like
>
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> plink -l albinus -ssh -t gandalf /bin/sh -i
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> Nothing happens, no prompt appears.
>
> 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
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The proposed option works as expected.

Best regards, Michael.