From: "Adam P. Jenkins" <thorin@...>
Date: 2005-06-28T05:05:40+09:00
Subject: Re: Error using Net::SSH

Jamis Buck wrote:
> 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.)

Why does it need ssh-agent to use the publickey authentication method? 
If your private key is encrypted and you don't have an ssh-agent 
running, the ssh client should just prompt you for the private key 
password.  Or am I misunderstanding what you're talking about?

Adam