On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 10:34 AM, Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> wrote:
> 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...
We've never supported anything other than OpenSSL.
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