Pino Toscano <ptosc...@redhat.com> writes: > On Friday, 26 July 2019 16:24:34 CEST Eric Blake wrote: >> On 7/26/19 9:09 AM, Pino Toscano wrote: >> > Add a 'private-key' option which represents the path of a private key >> > to use for authentication, and 'private-key-secret' as the name of an >> > object with its passphrase. >> > >> > Signed-off-by: Pino Toscano <ptosc...@redhat.com> >> >> > +++ b/qapi/block-core.json >> > @@ -3226,6 +3226,11 @@ >> > # @password-secret: ID of a QCryptoSecret object providing a password >> > # for authentication (since 4.2) >> > # >> > +# @private-key: path to the private key (since 4.2) >> > +# >> > +# @private-key-secret: ID of a QCryptoSecret object providing the >> > passphrase >> > +# for 'private-key' (since 4.2) >> >> Is password-secret intended to be mutually-exclusive with >> private-key/private-key-secret? > > My initial thought was to allow users to specify data for all the > authentication methods possible. Either ways (all of them, or a single > one) are fine for me.
How does this work at the libssh level? Can you configure multiple authentication methods, and let negotiation pick the one to be used?