From: Jamis Buck <jgb3@...>
Date: 2004-07-13T07:25:27+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Net::SSH 0.0.3

Jochen Immend�rfer wrote:
> Thank you for the quick reply. The additional require made it work for me.
> 
> But another question:
> 
> I've got my system configured with public and private keys the way that I can 
> connect without password. Itworks from the command-line.
> 
> But
> 
> 	Net::SSH.start('localhost')
> 
> produces the error:
> 
> OpenSSL::PKey::PKeyError: wrong public key type
>         from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/net-ssh-0.0.3/lib/net/ssh/service/userauth.rb:207:in 
> `sign'
>         from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/net-ssh-0.0.3/lib/net/ssh/service/userauth.rb:207:in 
> `try_publickey_auth_with'
>         from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/net-ssh-0.0.3/lib/net/ssh/service/userauth.rb:181:in 
> `try_publickey_auth'
>         from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/net-ssh-0.0.3/lib/net/ssh/service/userauth.rb:180:in 
> `each'
>         from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/net-ssh-0.0.3/lib/net/ssh/service/userauth.rb:180:in 
> `try_publickey_auth'
>         from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/net-ssh-0.0.3/lib/net/ssh/service/userauth.rb:114:in 
> `process'
>         from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/net-ssh-0.0.3/lib/net/ssh.rb:123:in 
> `open'
>         from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/net-ssh-0.0.3/lib/net/ssh.rb:67:in 
> `start'
>         from (irb):2
> 
> what is the 'right' public key type? I created my keys with 
> 
> 	ssh-keygen -t dsa
> 
> Is that wrong?

Woops. My bad. Apparently you can't use public/private key 
authentication using a dsa key right now. I'll work on that. I just need 
to not use the 'sign' method of the key object, since that doesn't work 
for all key types...

Look for a fix in 0.0.4... In the meantime, keys generated using 
'ssh-keygen -t rsa' should work fine. (If they don't, let me know, 
because they work for me.)

-- 
Jamis Buck
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