From: Luis Lavena <luislavena@...>
Date: 2008-04-16T08:45:04+09:00
Subject: Re: Windows, Net::SSH: how do I use a private key (w / passw

On Apr 15, 8:27 pm, James Dinkel <jdin...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

AFAIK, it relly on plink, plink accepts provide a private key file (-
i), but I didn't see how that will fit into Net::SSH code.

Maybe you can request it as feature:

http://rubyforge.org/tracker/?atid=1126&group_id=274&func=browse

--
Luis Lavena