From: itsme213 <itsme213@...>
Date: 2005-09-29T00:41:55+09:00
Subject: Re: net/ssh question

Thanks Chris. That helped a bunch.

Since I did not want to use private/public keys, I just had to explicitly
specify :auth_methods to #start.

Cheers!

"Chris Newman" <Chris.Newman@dalsemi.com> wrote

> pageant is Putty's version of an ssh keyring. It runs as a process and
> references whatever private keys it has loaded when ssh needs to
> authenticate a connection. Sounds like Net::SSH is trying to contact
pageant
> but pageant isn't running.
>
> You need to make sure it is loaded and whatever private key is needed is
> loaded into pageant.
>
> Hope this helps.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: itsme213 [mailto:itsme213@hotmail.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2005 10:22 AM
> To: ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org
> Subject: net/ssh question
>
> I am trying to get an ssh session started with
>   - 1.0.2 of net/ssh
>   - ruby 1.8.2 (2004-12-25) [i386-mswin32]
> and get an exception:
>
> irb(main):004:0> s = Net::SSH.start( 'my_host.com', 'user', 'pw )
> Net::SSH::Exception: pageant process not running
>         from
>
c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/net-ssh-1.0.2/lib/net/ssh/userauth/pageant.rb
> :112:in `in
> itialize'
>         from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/dl/import.rb:174:in `new'
>         from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/dl/import.rb:174:in `new'
>
>
> Any idea what I am doing wrong? Am I missing some library? I installed
> net-ssh as a gem with no errors.
>
> Thanks!
>
>
>
>