newbies question on pubkey authentication

["Florian, Heinz-Josef" <hj.florian@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi All,

 

as a newbie to ssh i try to write a client (on ms windows) with public key authentication.

The function ssh_userauth_offer_pubkey(..) returns SSH_AUTH_SUCCESS, fine.

Now I understand I have to read the associated private key and then to use the function

ssh_userauth_pubkey().

My question: how to retrieve the private key?

I cannot find the declaration of the function ssh_pki_import_privkey_file() (mentioned in the docs). Instead I find 

int ssh_userauth_privatekey_file(ssh_session session, const char *username,   const char *filename, const char *passphrase), being declared in libssh.h

But no variable to hold the private key.

 

Surely I'm missing something. Can you help?

 

Regards,

Heinz-Josef Florian


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