From: James Dinkel <jdinkel@...>
Date: 2008-04-16T08:27:11+09:00
Subject: Re: Windows, Net::SSH: how do I use a private key (w / passw

Luis Lavena wrote:
> On Apr 15, 6:45 pm, James Dinkel <jdin...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>     channel.on_data do |ch, data|
>>
>> 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.
> 
> You will need a few things:
> 
> Pageant (from PuTTY) is like a ssh keyring that hold all your private
> keys. Also, you need to create a PuTTY session with the same name of
> your server (files02) and put into Connection -> Data the username
> you're using to log into the server.
> 
> That's what I'm using with capistrano and other Net::SSH things that I
> cannot disclose, and worked without issues.
> 
> HTH,

So, Net::SSH will pull a key from Pageant?  I was hoping for something a 
little more portable, like being able to tell it to use a key located in 
the same directory as the script.
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