Immanuel pointed out that public key SSH auth failed if no public/private

key was specified and there was no HOME environment variable, and then it
didn't continue to try the other auth methods. Now it will instead try to
get the files id_dsa.pub and id_dsa from the current directory if none of
the two conditions were met.

3 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index cee4d48c8..f3a9ce7e5 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -6,6 +6,13 @@
 
                                   Changelog
 
+Daniel S (18 September 2007)
+- Immanuel pointed out that public key SSH auth failed if no public/private
+  key was specified and there was no HOME environment variable, and then it
+  didn't continue to try the other auth methods. Now it will instead try to
+  get the files id_dsa.pub and id_dsa from the current directory if none of
+  the two conditions were met.
+
 Dan F (17 September 2007)
 - Added hooks to the test suite to make it possible to test a curl running
   on a remote host.
diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES b/RELEASE-NOTES
index 059a4b682..a10177b90 100644
--- a/RELEASE-NOTES
+++ b/RELEASE-NOTES
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ This release includes the following bugfixes:
  o curl-config --protocols now properly reports LDAPS, SCP and SFTP
  o ldapv3 support on Windows
  o ldap builds with the MSVC makefiles
+ o no HOME and no key given caused SSH auth failure
 
 This release includes the following known bugs:
 
diff --git a/lib/ssh.c b/lib/ssh.c
index 50ec429b3..d95db32cd 100644
--- a/lib/ssh.c
+++ b/lib/ssh.c
@@ -407,6 +407,9 @@ static CURLcode ssh_statemach_act(struct connectdata *conn)
           sshc->rsa_pub = aprintf("%s", data->set.str[STRING_SSH_PUBLIC_KEY]);
         else if (home)
           sshc->rsa_pub = aprintf("%s/.ssh/id_dsa.pub", home);
+        else
+          /* as a final resort, try current dir! */
+          sshc->rsa_pub = strdup("id_dsa.pub");
 
         if (sshc->rsa_pub == NULL) {
           Curl_safefree(home);
@@ -420,6 +423,9 @@ static CURLcode ssh_statemach_act(struct connectdata *conn)
           sshc->rsa = aprintf("%s", data->set.str[STRING_SSH_PRIVATE_KEY]);
         else if (home)
           sshc->rsa = aprintf("%s/.ssh/id_dsa", home);
+        else
+          /* as a final resort, try current dir! */
+          sshc->rsa = strdup("id_dsa");
 
         if (sshc->rsa == NULL) {
           Curl_safefree(home);