Alexander Lamaison <sw...@lammy.co.uk> writes: > 2009/3/27 Simon Josefsson <si...@josefsson.org>: >> "Jean-Louis CHARTON" <jean-louis.char...@oikialog.com> writes: >> >>> maybe my suggestion to make the publickeyfile parameter optional is >>> not interesting at all. >> >> I haven't understood exactly when this would be useful? > > Many SSH programs only ask the user to provide the location of their > private keyfile to do public-key authentication. Although, both keys > are required to authenticate, the public-key can be derived from the > private-key. > > Allowing a null value for this parameter means programs based on > libssh2 only need to ask the user for one key; something they have > probably grown used to.
Makes sense to me now, thanks for explaining. So it would indeed be nice to have this feature. /Simon ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ libssh2-devel mailing list libssh2-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/libssh2-devel
