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| author | Sahana Prasad <sahana@redhat.com> | 2021-10-11 12:36:57 +0200 |
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| committer | Jakub Jelen <jjelen@redhat.com> | 2021-10-11 14:00:36 +0200 |
| commit | 95539ba0ebe0f71f77c621befb26dd836f0ffd0c (patch) | |
| tree | 7cdf88bd43f9b60f25da237b1705a5f008350177 | |
| parent | 4a2758ecd6041bf18ab50f215712b54ef46e33cd (diff) | |
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Adds documentation about the order of processing the IdentityFiles
specified in ~/.ssh/config.
Signed-off-by: Sahana Prasad <sahana@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jakub Jelen <jjelen@redhat.com>
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/authentication.dox | 3 |
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diff --git a/doc/authentication.dox b/doc/authentication.dox index 3196f645..7d0ab81d 100644 --- a/doc/authentication.dox +++ b/doc/authentication.dox @@ -33,6 +33,9 @@ The process of authenticating by public key to a server is the following: used to authenticate the user). - then, you retrieve the private key for this key and send a message proving that you know that private key. + - when several identity files are specified, then the order of processing of + these files is from the last-mentioned to the first one + (if specified in the ~/.ssh/config, then starting from the bottom to the top). The function ssh_userauth_autopubkey() does this using the available keys in "~/.ssh/". The return values are the following: |