From: unbewusst.sein@... (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Une_B=E9v?= =?ISO-8859-1?Q?ue?=)
Date: 2008-07-22T23:54:31+09:00
Subject: Re: interacting with a shell script (ssh)

Sandor Sz�cs <sandor.szuecs@fu-berlin.de> wrote:

> 
> Login without sending a password over the network by use of public/ 
> private key
> method.

It's what i've done but working only when using ssh_agent.

> Read wikipedia or other resources, there are really thousands  
> of good
> ones.

didn't see anyone explaining why key auth works with ssh_agent and not
directly and also why, when logged as root it works directly.

> 
> > 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)

ok, now i've catched this option...

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