Re: newbies question on pubkey authentication

[Andreas Schneider <asn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday, October 13, 2011 09:35:12 you wrote:
> Hi All,

Hi,

> 
> 
> 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

You're probably looking at the wrong documentation. You should look at the 
docs off the stable version instead of the current development branch :)

> 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.
> 

privatekey_from_file() ???

There is no need to hold it.


	-- andreas