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authorArmel Asselin <armelasselin@hotmail.com>2012-04-01 20:22:37 +0200
committerDaniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>2012-04-01 20:22:37 +0200
commit05a443adf2d607a53a943d6f1df33cd765061c4e (patch)
tree3553c2f71251fa01214514f50f95a066d958bfd1 /docs
parentebf315e6f399ec534dbce4741d0463c28ae858e3 (diff)
SSH: public key can now be an empty string
If an empty string is passed to CURLOPT_SSH_PUBLIC_KEYFILE, libcurl will pass no public key to libssh2 which then tries to compute it from the private key. This is known to work when libssh2 1.4.0+ is linked against OpenSSL.
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-rw-r--r--docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.33
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3 b/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3
index 76b4281ca..d0e054b62 100644
--- a/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3
+++ b/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3
@@ -2380,6 +2380,9 @@ Pass a char * pointing to a file name for your public key. If not used,
libcurl defaults to \fB$HOME/.ssh/id_dsa.pub\fP if the HOME environment
variable is set, and just "id_dsa.pub" in the current directory if HOME is not
set. (Added in 7.16.1)
+If an empty string is passed, libcurl will pass no public key to libssh2
+which then tries to compute it from the private key, this is known to work
+when libssh2 1.4.0+ is linked against OpenSSL. (Added in 7.25.1)
.IP CURLOPT_SSH_PRIVATE_KEYFILE
Pass a char * pointing to a file name for your private key. If not used,
libcurl defaults to \fB$HOME/.ssh/id_dsa\fP if the HOME environment variable