From: Daniel Berger <djberg96@...>
Date: 2005-02-18T05:39:48+09:00
Subject: Re: Net:SSH bug (+ fix)

Peter C. Verhage wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Just found a small bug in Net::SSH 1.0. Line 44 of services.rb
contains
> the following if statement:
>
>    if socket_name && socket_factory
>
> If you use the Putty Agent the socket factory is enough for agent
usage,
> but because of this if statement you also have to set the
SSH_AUTH_SOCK
> environment variable to make use of the agent. This could be changed
by
> slightly changing the if statement to:
>
>    if (File::ALT_SEPARATOR || socket_name) && socket_factory
>
> Thanks for the great library BTW!
>
> Regards,
>
> Peter

Nice spot.  Please post patches, bug fixes, etc on the Net::SSH
RubyForge project page.  Jamis is more likely to see it, and less
likely to forget it. :)

Regards,

Dan