GNU bug report logs - #75746
31.0.50; Can't get password promote from plink 0.82

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: 孙曙光(Sun Shuguang) <shuguang.sun <at> zaiming.com>

Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2025 07:49:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 31.0.50

Fixed in version 30.2

Done: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #38 received at 75746 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: shuguang79 <at> qq.com, 75746 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, shuguang.sun <at> zaiming.com
Subject: Re: bug#75746: 31.0.50; Can't get password promote from plink 0.82
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2025 14:29:49 +0100

Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de> writes:

> The following message has been sent to the PuTTY developers

And here's the answer

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
From: Jacob Nevins <jacobn+puttybugs <at> chiark.greenend.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [putty] plink ceased to show prompts since release 0.82
To: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de>
Cc: putty <at> projects.tartarus.org
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2025 13:01:12 +0000 (1 minute, 3 seconds ago)
Reply-To: putty <at> projects.tartarus.org
Mail-Followup-To: putty <at> projects.tartarus.org, Michael Albinus
 <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de>

Michael Albinus writes:
> In order to make this happen, Emacs opens internally a cmd.exe buffer. In
> this buffer, a command like
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> plink -l albinus -ssh -t gandalf /bin/sh -i
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> 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
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

The proposed option works as expected.

Best regards, Michael.
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