2009/3/27 Simon Josefsson <simon_at_josefsson.org>:
> "Jean-Louis CHARTON" <Jean-Louis.CHARTON_at_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.
Alex
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