On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 4:28 PM, Casper Langemeijer <cas...@langemeijer.eu>wrote:
> Hi All, > > A PHP user writes: > > "Every other ssh client I've ever dealt with, only requires the private > key to authenticate to a remote server with ssh2. > > What is the reason for requiring both the public and private keys for > authenticating, when in reality only the private key is required? The > public key should be easily extracted from private key, and should be > handled silently by PHP." > > I think he raises an interesting point. What can you say on the subject? > > For reference: https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=59409 > > Greetings, Casper > Hi Casper, It's not required. You can pass a NULL pointer in to the function for the public key file parameter and it will use the private key file parameter instead. --Joe
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