Hi Jamis, thanks for the pointer. Actually I had forgotten to load the
keys D'oh!! in Pageant.exe and once I did that and commented out the
ssh_options line, I was in through cap!

thanks so much,

Amr

On Jun 5, 4:44 pm, Amr Malik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello,
>     I already have public key auth working for putty and can login to
> the unix system without giving the password.
>
> I am trying to get my test Cap script to do the same but it asks me
> for a password even though I have putty Pageant running. What variable
> do I need to set in my Capfile so that it would automatically do the
> handshake for me?
>
> Src: Windows XP (don't ask)
> TGT: HP/UX
>
> >From Putty:
>
> public key auth seems to be setup properly for putty at least.
>
> >From Capistrano: (2.0)
>
> If I specify the :password, it works fine and I see the output of the
> cmdstr
> If I specify the ssh_options, it asks me for the password. ie, auto
> login no worky!
>
> My script:
>
> ==========================================
> role :devdb, "hpuxdbserver"
>
> set :user, "hpuxdbuser"
> # set :password, "monkeynyuknyuk"
>
> # my pub key is d:\ssh\pub_key.pub
> # priv key is d:\ssh\priv_key.ppk
>
> ssh_options[:keys] = %w(d:\ssh\pub_key)
>
> desc "find out which DB pmon  processes are running"
> task :ora_running , :role => :devdb do
>         cmdstr = "ps -ef | grep pmon"
>         run cmdstr
> end
> ==========================================
>
> Any pointers would be greatly appreciated. thanks,
>
> -A


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