Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/2] ssh: implement private key authentication

[Pino Toscano]

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 <address@hidden>
> 
> > +++ 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.

-- 
Pino Toscano

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