From: Jamis Buck <jamis_buck@...>
Date: 2004-12-03T01:15:57+09:00
Subject: Re: OpenSSL and 1-click installer (Re: [ANN] Net::SSH 0.6.0)

James Britt wrote:
> Jamis Buck wrote:
> 
>> ...
>> It looks like the version of the Ruby/OpenSSL module you have 
>> installed is not the right version... The RSA and DSA keys in the 
>> version in 1.8.2 allow for a no-argument constructor, whereas prior 
>> versions in did, and that's the problem you are seeing.
>>
>> Try this:
>>
>>   ruby -ropenssl -e "OpenSSL::PKey::DSA.new"
>>
>> If that fails, then you know you've got the wrong version. If it 
>> succeeds...well, let me know.
> 
> 
> c:\> ruby -ropenssl -e "OpenSSL::PKey::DSA.new"
> -e:1:in `initialize': wrong number of arguments (0 for 1) (ArgumentError)
>         from -e:1:in `new'
>         from -e:1
> 
> 
> I think we had this discussion during RubyConf2004; I have been unable 
> to locate and install a proper OpenSSL lib.
> 
> Should the 1-click installer include SSL libs that Just Work?  I may 
> have screwed up my libs in October while trying to get SSH running, but 
> I recently installed the latest 1-click 1.8.2, so I was hoping it would 
> have been bundled with the correct SSL lib.
> 
> Has anyone gotten Net:SSH working with the 1-click version?

Well, I have, but only because I compiled the Ruby/OpenSSL module 
myself. It relies on version 8 of the msvcrt dll, which you may or may 
not have installed, but if you'd like I can send along (or post) the 
binary version I created.

- Jamis

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