newbies question on pubkey authentication

[Florian, Heinz-Josef]

Hi All,



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

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.



Surely I'm missing something. Can you help?



Regards,

Heinz-Josef Florian


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[Andreas Schneider]

Post by Florian, Heinz-Josef
Hi All,

Hi,

Post by Florian, Heinz-Josef
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 :)

Post by Florian, Heinz-Josef
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

[Florian, Heinz-Josef]

Hi Andreas,

the function privatekey_from_file() (declared in legacy.h) did it.
Thank you.

Regards,

Heinz-Josef Florian

[Andreas Schneider]

Post by Florian, Heinz-Josef
Hi Andreas,

Hi,

Post by Florian, Heinz-Josef
the function privatekey_from_file() (declared in legacy.h) did it.
Thank you.

we will have a new PKI in libssh 0.6 which is a lot better and easier to use.

Post by Florian, Heinz-Josef
Regards,
Heinz-Josef Florian

-- andreas