From: Gordon Thiesfeld <gthiesfeld@...>
Date: 2008-04-16T20:47:58+09:00
Subject: Re: Windows, Net::SSH: how do I use a private key (w / passw

On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 12:33 AM, James Dinkel <jdinkel@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>  I actually generated the key with ssh-keygen on the linux server (which
>  needs to be converted to use with Putty, but I expect to use the
>  unconverted key with the ruby script).  What is the syntax of using the
>  :key parameter? Is it like this?
>
>   Net::SSH.start( 'files02', :keys=>['C:\\key_name'] ) do |session|
>
>  assuming of course the key file is named 'key_name' and resides directly
>  under the c: drive.  Do you put in the name the public key to? (With
>  Putty and openSSH clients I only need the private key on the client)
>

Here's what I tried, the keys are in the same directory as the script,
so no path.

C:\ruby>ruby -v
ruby 1.8.6 (2008-03-03 patchlevel 114) [i386-mingw32]

C:\ruby>gem li net-ssh

*** LOCAL GEMS ***

net-ssh (1.1.2)

# test_ssh.rb
require 'net/ssh'
Net::SSH.start( 'local' , :keys =>['private_key.priv']) do |session|
  # do stuff
end

I had to rename my public key to private_key.priv.pub (so, name of
private key, with a .pub extension), or it would throw an error.
Right now, I'm testing against a cygwin ssh server on my local
machine.  I'll look at it some more when I get in to work and can test
against a "proper" ssh server.