From: Carl Youngblood <carl.youngblood@...>
Date: 2004-07-30T02:56:25+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Net::SSH 0.0.5

Do you really mean "pure ruby"?  I thought that ruby relied on OpenSSL
C code to do a lot of its stuff.

On Thu, 29 Jul 2004 13:31:48 +0900, Jamis Buck <jgb3@email.byu.edu> wrote:
> Net::SSH 0.0.5 is now available! (Yes, this comes hard on the heels of
> 0.0.4, but I'm going out of town for a week and a half and figured I
> should release the work that has been done in the last few days, since
> it was significant.)
> 
> Net::SSH is a pure-Ruby implementation of an SSH2 client. It may be
> obtained at:
> 
>    http://rubyforge.org/projects/net-ssh
> 
> The complete (!) users manual and API documentation may be read at:
> 
>    http://net-ssh.rubyforge.org
>    http://net-ssh.rubyforge.org/api
> 
> Version 0.0.5 adds the much-anticipated SSH agent support, but (alas)
> only on Unix-ish systems. (The PuTTY "pageant" agent is sufficiently
> different from the OpenSSH ssh-agent utility that it will require a
> pretty bit of work to interface with... any takers?)
> 
> This version also provides an "rb-keygen" command-line utility for
> generating keys. It mirrors a subset of the functionality of
> "ssh-keygen", so if you've got ssh-keygen available, you might as well
> use it for generating keys. If you don't, you can use rb-keygen instead.
> 
> One particularly significant bug fix was suggested by Daniel Hobe: in
> 0.0.4 and earlier, all of a user's private keys were loaded at startup
> time, which meant that if the keys were protected by passphrases, the
> user had to enter those passphrases for all keys up front, even if none
> of the keys were ever used. This was annoying. Now, key loading is
> delayed until the key is actually needed, so you never need to enter a
> passphrase for a private key unless it is actually going to be used.
> 
> Various other improvements and fixes have been added as well--see the
> ChangeLog for the complete list. Also, don't forget to read the users
> manual--all planned chapters have been drafted, and I'm just awaiting
> comments. (Thanks to those of you that have submitted comments on the
> documentation already--they've helped a ton.)
> 
> Special thanks for this release go to Daniel Hobe, without whose
> suggestions, comments, encouragement, and patches this release would not
> be nearly as slick.
> 
> (I think we may be getting close to a 0.1 release!)
> 
> --
> Jamis Buck
> jgb3@email.byu.edu
> http://www.jamisbuck.org/jamis
> 
> "I use octal until I get to 8, and then I switch to decimal."
> 
>