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Re: Will SFTP program with libcurl impacted by SSH config file ?

From: Dan Fandrich <dan_at_coneharvesters.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2011 23:28:27 -0800

On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 02:05:12PM +0800, CHEN Xiaolei A wrote:
> In Sun solaris os, client could use command sftp (a tool of openssh) to log
> on remote server, and this manual way will be impacted by SSH config file "/
> home/username/.ssh/config". If setting "StrictHostKeyChecking yes" in that
> file, then sftp command will check whether remote host's key exists in local
> "known_hosts" firstly, if not, SFTP log on will fail.
>
>
> I did a test to check whether SFTP program using libcurl will be impacted by
> that SSH config file, and the result is no. So my question is:
>
> (1) Is it possible that SFTP program using libcurl could be impacted by that
> SSH config file, if I set some CURLOPT_SSH_XXXXXX in my program ?

No, curl and libcurl do not read OpenSSH configuration files.

> (2) If it's impossible for (1), then could I make that
> "StrickHostKeyChecking yes" available in my libcurl program, through setting
> CURLOPT_SSH_XXX ?

The CURLOPT_SSH_HOST_PUBLIC_KEY_MD5 option does what you want.

>>> Dan
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