From: Jamis Buck <jgb3@...>
Date: 2004-07-21T00:12:21+09:00
Subject: Re: Net::SSH difficulties

Hal Fulton wrote:
> Jamis Buck wrote:
> 
>> Hal,
>>
>> It looks like you're using an unpatched version of the OpenSSL module 
>> for Ruby. One of the changes I submitted to that module was to allow 
>> "blank" keys to be created, and initialized later. Previously, the key 
>> constructors always required at least one parameter.
>>
>> Can you please verify that you are, indeed, using 1.8.2? (I assume you 
>> mean, by 1.8.2, that you're using a CVS snapshot...?) When did you 
>> install it? Could it be that you are using a version that is "old" 
>> enough that it doesn't include the patch I submitted?
> 
> 
> ruby -v yields: ruby 1.8.2 (2004-07-08) [i686-linux]
> 
> I think this was a nightly snapshot from a couple of weeks ago. I don't
> think I got it directly from CVS, but from the (presumably) auto-generated
> .tgz file.
> 
> But that was on top of 1.8.1 -- is it possible that my install is screwed
> up somehow?
> 
> FYI, I installed ssh via the gem.
> 
> I downloaded the patch but decided I didn't need it.
> 
> Here's a list of some related files with timestamps.  What do you think?
> 

Try this:

   ruby -ropenssl -e "p OpenSSL::PKey::DH.instance_method(:g)"

If that gives you an error, then you've got an old version of the 
OpenSSL module. Installing on top of 1.8.1 MIGHT have caused problems, 
but I wouldn't have thought so. At any rate, if the above works, then 
the problem is something else. If it doesn't, then we can take it from 
there.

- Jamis

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Jamis Buck
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