On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 11:15 AM, Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 10:10 AM, Akshay Joshi
> <akshay.joshi@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
>>
>> We are using following API for successful authentication using public key
>>
>> libssh2_userauth_publickey_fromfile(LIBSSH2_SESSION *session, const
>> char *username, const char *publickey, const char *privatekey,
>> const char *passphrase);
>>
>> So in this case we will require both public and private key. We can do
>> one thing here is only get the private key from user and assume public key
>> file (.pub) is at the same folder location. Thoughts? Comments?
>
> No, that won't work - it'll break as soon as I test it for example.
>
> You can just set that param to null. The man page says:
>
> publickey - Path name of the public key file. (e.g.
> /etc/ssh/hostkey.pub). If libssh2 is built against OpenSSL, this
> option can be set to NULL.
What if it's not built against OpenSSL, though? For example, the one
on Ubuntu appears to be built against GnuTLS...
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