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>
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@ -33,6 +33,9 @@ The process of authenticating by public key to a server is the following:
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used to authenticate the user).
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- then, you retrieve the private key for this key and send a message
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proving that you know that private key.
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- when several identity files are specified, then the order of processing of
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these files is from the last-mentioned to the first one
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(if specified in the ~/.ssh/config, then starting from the bottom to the top).
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The function ssh_userauth_autopubkey() does this using the available keys in
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"~/.ssh/". The return values are the following:
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