On Mon, 21 Feb 2011, [email protected] wrote:

I looked through the source for libcurl and found that if the known hosts file name is not set (CURLOPT_SSH_KNOWNHOSTS), there is no default value and so the key function never gets called. Fair enough, but it seems odd that the other filename settings fall back to a default value if not explicitly set, yet the know hosts file name does not.

What would a sensible default value for a known hosts file name be? I don't know of any, hence there is none.

It should be made more obvious in the docs though, and I've added a mention about the CURLOPT_SSH_KEYFUNCTION's dependency on CURLOPT_SSH_KNOWNHOSTS now.

If I set the known hosts file name, my key function does get called (hooray!) but even when I return CURLKHSTAT_FINE, the authentication fails.

Well, a known hosts doesn't imply correct authentication... Can you show us more about the exact error you get?

Furthermore, when I return CURLKHSTAT_FINE_ADD_TO_FILE, writing to my hosts file fails, even though I believe the permissions are adequate (-rw-r--r--).

Again, I figure some basic single-stepping is the easiest way to figure out what's happening...

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