Update Added the openssl-snapshot-20040726.tar.bz2 path to Ruby 1.8.2 stable and I still get the same errors as listed above using Net::SSH 0.1.0 the above example works However the above example code does not work with Net::SSH 0.6.0 the above example code is straight out of the Net::SSH documentation by the maintainer of the project Jamis Buck any ideas anyone ???...... Otaku