From: Zach Dennis <zdennis@...>
Date: 2005-08-24T13:23:54+09:00
Subject: Re: Error using Net::SSH

Jamis Buck wrote:
> On Jun 27, 2005, at 2:05 PM, Adam P. Jenkins wrote:
> 
>> 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?
> 
> 
> It doesn't--I was just trying to be brief in explaining the bug. What  
> it does (or rather, what it SHOULD be doing) is check to see if there  
> is an ssh-agent running, and if so, use that, otherwise, find the  
> private keys of the current user and read them directly.
> 
> Unfortunately, there is a problem right now, and what I believe is  
> happening is that it is trying to connect to an agent that isn't  
> running, because it is misinterpreting the result of the query to see  
> whether an agent is running.
> 
> Hopefully I'll have time to track this down sometime this week.  
> (Patches would be welcome, hint hint.)

Jamis,

Any luck on this. I get this from the latest 1.0.2 gem. I looked at the 
source, but I do not see where there is any code that would 'read' the 
keys in, I only see where it attempts to use Pageant, and nothing else....

I would like to use the latest net-ssh with my key authentication w/o 
using ssh-agent or pageant. Any ideas? Thanks,

Zach