From: Jamis Buck <jamis@37signals.com>
Date: 2005-06-27T08:56:24+09:00
Subject: Re: Error using Net::SSH

On Jun 26, 2005, at 4:20 PM, Amit Chitre wrote:

>> From WinXP, I'm trying (for the first time) to connect to remote
>>
> solaris server.  Code as under:

Thanks for the bug report. I'll look into it--in the meantime, you  
can work around it by explicitly specifying the authentication method 
(s) to use:

   session = Net::SSH.start('remote.solaris.server', 'user', 'pwd',
                :auth_methods => %w(password keyboard-interactive))

(The problem is occurring because by default, the "publickey"  
authmethod is tried first and it can't find the SSH agent to use for  
that. That's a bug--it should silently fall back to the next method.)

- Jamis