From: Carl Youngblood <carl.youngblood@...>
Date: 2004-10-09T04:43:30+09:00
Subject: Re: net-ssh help

Thanks for the tips.  I'm not in front of my mac now, but my ruby
setup was installed from CVS about 6 months ago and has accumulated a
lot of cruft over time.  I've been wanting to clean things up for a
while now, so I think maybe I'll kill it and start from scratch again,
this time with a stable release.

On Fri, 8 Oct 2004 23:18:44 +0900, Jamis Buck <jgb3@email.byu.edu> wrote:
> Carl Youngblood wrote:
> > Hello,
> > I'm trying to use net-ssh for the first time and having some trouble.
> > Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> >
> > In a simple script I'm running with the first few lines like so:
> >
> > Net::SSH.start('myhost, 'user', 'pass') do |session|
> >       Net::SSH::SFTP.session(session) do |sftp|
> >               if not sftp.put_file(domainfile, "blocks/#{domainfile}")
> >                       raise "Couldn't upload domain file"
> >               end
> >               if not sftp.put_file(actionfile, "blocks/#{actionfile}")
> >                       raise "Couldn't upload action file"
> >               end
> >       end
> > end
> >
> > I get the following error:
> >
> > could not load public key file '/Users/carl/.ssh/id_rsa.pub'
> > (uninitialized constant OpenSSL::PKey::PKey::Base64 [NameError])
> 
> Carl,
> 
> A few questions: what version of Ruby are you using? Do you get a
> backtrace with the error? If so, could you post it?
> 
> The problem, it looks like, is that the Base64 library cannot be found,
> which is worrisome, since it's part of the standard library. If that
> can't be found, then either (a) you're using a pre-1.8 version of Ruby,
> or (b) you're Ruby installation is incorrect or incomplete.
> 
> >
> > I'm wondering why it fails trying to load the public key file when A)
> > it's there and it's readable by the current user, and B) I've already
> > specified the username and password explicitly, so it doesn't matter
> > if it succeeds in reading the public key file.
> 
> The failure isn't because the file couldn't be opened, its because the
> Base64 module couldn't be found while the key was being processed.
> 
> >
> > I figured maybe there was something special in rb-keygen beyond what
> > was in ssh-keygen, so I ran it, but I got the following error when I
> > did that:
> >
> > /usr/local/bin/rb-keygen:25:in `require': No such file to load --
> > net/ssh/transport/buffer (LoadError)
> >         from /usr/local/bin/rb-keygen:25
> 
> This seems to indicate a borked installation as well... perhaps your
> Ruby load paths are wrong? Try this:
> 
>    ruby -e 'p $:'
> 
> Could you send me the paths that it emits? Also:
> 
>    ruby -rnet/ssh -e 'p $"'
> 
> Could you send me that output of that command?
> 
> - Jamis