From: James Dinkel <jdinkel@...>
Date: 2008-04-16T06:45:40+09:00
Subject: Windows, Net::SSH: how do I use a private key (w / password)

Private key authentication works with this user, I know because I use it
fine with Putty.

Here is my script right now:
------------
require 'rubygems'
require 'net/ssh'

Net::SSH.start( 'files02', 'myuser', 'mypassword' ) do |session|
  session.open_channel do |channel|
    channel.on_data do |ch, data|
      puts data
    end

    channel.exec "echo \"hello\""

  end

  session.loop
end
-------------

and it works, but I would prefer it to use a private key for the
authentication and then prompt for the key's password.  In the
documentation it says it will automatically look for a key in certain
places, but the places are unix paths and this needs to run from a
Windows (XP) box.
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