From: "Sandor Szücs" <sandor.szuecs@...>
Date: 2008-07-22T22:30:00+09:00
Subject: Re: interacting with a shell script (ssh)

On 22.07.2008, at 10:04, Une Bévue wrote:

> ...
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> why such a difference ?

Login without sending a password over the network by use of public/ 
private key
method. Read wikipedia or other resources, there are really thousands  
of good
ones.

> obviously have tried also using net/ssh and net/scp (+Highline) with
> ruby :
>
> require 'net/ssh'
> require 'net/scp'
>
> Net::SSH.start("169.254.0.2", "root", :password => "<my pass phrase>",
> :port => 2222) do |ssh|
>   ssh.scp.upload! "/mnt/fat", "/Users/yt/Desktop/scp_ESSAIS.txt"
> end
>
>
> here i got :
>
> Enter passphrase for /Users/yt/.ssh/id_dsa:
> /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/net-ssh-2.0.3/lib/net/ssh.rb:195:in
> `start': root (Net::SSH::AuthenticationFailed)
>         from ./net-scp.rb:15
>
>
> then net/ssh is asking for the pass phrase althought it's given by
> :password
>
> may be there is another option for the passphrase not being the  
> same as
> :password ?

According to http://net-ssh.rubyforge.org/ssh/v2/api/index.html the  
password
option is not used as passphrase to open your private key.

# :password => the password to use to login
# :passphrase => the passphrase to use when loading a private key  
(default is
nil, for no passphrase)

regards, Sandor Szücs
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