Re: ssh_connect issue "Couldn't apply options"

[g4-lisz@xxxxxxxxxxxx]

Thanks for the reply.

I'm glad to hear that you were able to solve the problem.

We really needed a Wiki or similar for libssh on Windows. A few things
are different there than on Linux, and it's not documented.

On 09.04.19 17:55, Karlen Abrahamyan wrote:
>
>
> Oh Thank you I solved the problem. The issue was the following. I use
> libssh in Windows, and in 7.2 SSH_OPTIONS_SSH_DIR was automatically
> set by default with path something like this "C:/Users/my_user". This
> is the path where .ssh folder would be created with known_hosts file
> inside. In version 8.7 this path is not being set and it stays NULL
> and you have to set it by yourself. This problem occures only in
> Windows as in Linux it will set users home directory by default. I
> couldnt find anything anywhere about this until I debugged the code
> and found the issue by myself. And btw you need to
> set SSH_OPTIONS_USER before ssh_connect as well. So this was the
> issue. Thank you for your help once more. :) 
>
> On Tuesday, April 9, 2019, 3:48:37 PM GMT+4, g4-lisz@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> <g4-lisz@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> On 08.04.19 15:31, Karlen Abrahamyan wrote:
>
> Hi. I have previously used libssh version 0.7.2 on Windows and it
> worked just fine, wanted to switch to new version 0.8.7 but I keep
> getting "Couldn't apply options" error message on ssh_connect func
> call and cant find any help in other threads.
>
> Here is my code
>
> sshSession = ssh_new();
> if (sshSession == NULL)
> exit(-1);
>
>         int port = 22;
>         ssh_options_set(sshSession, SSH_OPTIONS_HOST, "192.168.0.109");
> ssh_options_set(sshSession, SSH_OPTIONS_PORT, &port);
> int rc = ssh_connect(sshSession);
> if (rc != SSH_OK)
> {
>                 // here I keep getting the error I mentioned above
> ssh_free(sshSession);
> }
>
> This exact code worked in 0.7.2 version on Windows. Any help would be
> much appreciated. Thank you in advance.
>
> Did you compile the lib yourself? If yes, you could try to isolate the
> issue by adding some debug messages in src/options.c on each line
> where -1 is returned in ssh_options_apply():
>
> int ssh_options_apply(ssh_session session) {
>  [...]
>  --> ssh_set_error(session,SSH_FATAL,"Trying to XY failed"); <---
>   return -1;
>  [...]
> }
>
> This is called by ssh_connect(). And when it returns -1, the message
> "Couldn't apply options" is printed.
>
> Cheers,
> Till
>
>
>