From: Daniel Berger <djberg96@...>
Date: 2007-05-05T02:45:04+09:00
Subject: Re: address family for hostname not supported

On May 4, 9:59 am, Dax Huiberts <dax.huibe...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Gordon Thiesfeld wrote:
> > You need to specify ssh in the %systemroot%\system32\drivers\etc
> > \services file.
>
> > Open it, and add a line like this:
>
> > ssh                22/tcp                           #SSH
>
> > Gordon
>
> Cool!
>
> That solved one problem,
> now it wanted to create a file in my %home_dir%/.ssh directory which
> didn't exists and quit. Manually creating that directory and adding the
> ssh line to my services file makes net-ssh1.1.0 work with windows.
> Apparently net-ssh1.1.0 isn't really geared towards windows usage I
> suppose.

I found the problem (and it wasn't a Windows problem). It's the host-
key-verifier.rb file. Change line 64 to this:

Dir.mkdir(key_directory,  0700) if !File.exists?(key_directory)

I've already filed a bug report on the project site.

Regards,

Dan