Hey folks, I am working on a small SFTP client using libssh2. I would like for this client to persist the host key of the server it is connecting to, but I seem to be unable to get a hold of it.
After initialising libssh2 and calling libssh2_session_handshake, I am able to print the host key fingerprint through libssh2_hostkey_hash as in the example programs. I assumed I would be able to print the actual host key rather than the fingerprint with libssh2_session_hostkey, but that returns an empty string. I suspect that libssh2_session_hostkey only returns the local host key when operating as a server (given this[1] source code comment), but the docs[2] are unclear about this: they just state "get the remote key" and "returns a pointer to the current host key". Am I doing something wrong, or is it indeed impossible right now to print the host key when operating as a client? Kind regards, Jente [1] https://github.com/libssh2/libssh2/blob/2a2aaed3b6c3c1dc25e35e11afcfb23f88a18510/src/libssh2_priv.h#L628 [2] https://www.libssh2.org/libssh2_session_hostkey.html -- libssh2-devel mailing list libssh2-devel@lists.haxx.se https://lists.haxx.se/listinfo/libssh2-devel
