Nothing to be ashamed of ... I wouldn't know what it is either except
our security droids require it on all publicly accessible systems.
Anyway, in this context it means that two forms of authentication are
required, specifically a public key *and* a password. My guess is that
Net::SSH only knows how to provide one or the other but not both. The
operative word there is "guess"; I would be happy to provide the
output that results when I set ssh_options[:verbose] to :debug - I
didn't do it in my original post because I'll have to make sure it's
all "sanitized".

Thanks for the quick response ... WkH

On Jan 2, 2:44 pm, Jamis Buck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm not ashamed to reveal my ignorance and state that I have never  
> heard of two-factor auth...so it isn't surprising that Net::SSH would  
> not handle that, since I wrote that, too. I based Net::SSH off of the  
> base ssh RFC's, which I don't recall mentioning two-factor  
> authentication.
>
> - Jamis
>
> On Jan 2, 2008, at 11:14 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>
>
> > One of my resolutions for the new year is to replace my crufty old
> > expect scripts with Capistrano. Unfortunately, I'm having trouble with
> > the :gateway mechanism. Our bastion servers are configured for two-
> > factor auth: public key and password. Capistrano, or Net::SSH, doesn't
> > seem to be able to handle that flavor of authentication. When I run
> > the following task, which just tests the ability to login to the
> > bastion server:
>
> > task :whos_on, :hosts => "my.bastion.server" do
> >  run "who"
> > end
>
> > I get the following output:
>
> > $ cap whos_on
> >  * executing `whos_on'
> >  * executing "who"
> >    servers: ["my.bastion.server"]
> > Password:
> > connection failed for: my.bastion.server
> > (Net::SSH::AuthenticationFailed: username)
>
> > I'm able to ssh to my.bastion.server with no problems. I'm also able
> > to set up a tunnel through it to any of our production boxes using
> > just straight ssh. Doing set :gateway, "my.bastion.server" in my
> > capfile gives me no joy either.
>
> > I have verified that the whos_on task works when run within the
> > production network where the boxes don't do two-factor auth. That's
> > why I'm focused on the two-factor thing. To be useful I really need
> > the :gateway mechanism to work.
>
> > Anyone have any ideas?
>
> > ... WkH
> > >
>
>
>  smime.p7s
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