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diff --git a/docs/curl.1 b/docs/curl.1 index e52a7e4dd..4d97227af 100644 --- a/docs/curl.1 +++ b/docs/curl.1 @@ -825,7 +825,8 @@ If this option is used several times, the last one will be used. If unspecified, the option defaults to 60 seconds. .IP "--key <key>" (SSL/SSH) Private key file name. Allows you to provide your private key in this -separate file. +separate file. For SSH, if not specified, curl tries the following candidates +in order: '~/.ssh/id_rsa', '~/.ssh/id_dsa', './id_rsa', './id_dsa'. If this option is used several times, the last one will be used. .IP "--key-type <type>" @@ -1283,6 +1284,11 @@ protocol instead of the default HTTP 1.1. separate file. If this option is used several times, the last one will be used. + +(As of 7.39.0, curl attempts to automatically extract the public key from the +private key file, so passing this option is generally not required. Note that +this public key extraction requires libcurl to be linked against a copy of +libssh2 1.2.8 or higher that is itself linked against OpenSSL.) .IP "-q" If used as the first parameter on the command line, the \fIcurlrc\fP config file will not be read and used. See the \fI-K, --config\fP for details on the |