From 365db94e0a92cacfebd20aa660138ea5b67a02d3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Stenberg Date: Mon, 2 May 2011 23:31:38 +0200 Subject: curl_easy_setopt.3: clarify the SSH KEYFILE options usage The internal defaults are important info --- docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3 | 12 +++++++----- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) (limited to 'docs/libcurl') diff --git a/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3 b/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3 index 4522181b1..55b0db5ba 100644 --- a/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3 +++ b/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3 @@ -2103,13 +2103,15 @@ libcurl will reject the connection to the host unless the md5sums match. This option is only for SCP and SFTP transfers. (Added in 7.17.1) .IP CURLOPT_SSH_PUBLIC_KEYFILE Pass a char * pointing to a file name for your public key. If not used, -libcurl defaults to using \fB~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub\fP. -(Added in 7.16.1) +libcurl defaults to \fB$HOME/.ssh/id_dsa.pub\fP if the HOME environment +variable is set, and just "id_dsa.pub" in the current directory if HOME is not +set. (Added in 7.16.1) .IP CURLOPT_SSH_PRIVATE_KEYFILE Pass a char * pointing to a file name for your private key. If not used, -libcurl defaults to using \fB~/.ssh/id_dsa\fP. If the file is -password-protected, set the password with \fICURLOPT_KEYPASSWD\fP. (Added in -7.16.1) +libcurl defaults to \fB$HOME/.ssh/id_dsa\fP if the HOME environment variable +is set, and just "id_dsa" in the current directory if HOME is not set. If the +file is password-protected, set the password with +\fICURLOPT_KEYPASSWD\fP. (Added in 7.16.1) .IP CURLOPT_SSH_KNOWNHOSTS Pass a pointer to a zero terminated string holding the file name of the known_host file to use. The known_hosts file should use the OpenSSH file -- cgit v1.2.3