ssh2_auth_pubkey_file

Authenticate using a public key (PECL ssh2:0.10-0.9)
bool ssh2_auth_pubkey_file ( resource session, string username, string pubkeyfile, string privkeyfile [, string passphrase] )

Authenticate using a public key read from a file.

Parameters

session: An SSH connection link identifier, obtained from a call to ssh2_connect().
username
pubkeyfile
privkeyfile
passphrase: If privkeyfile is encrypted (which it should be), the passphrase must be provided.

Return Values

Returns TRUE on success or FALSE on failure.

Examples

Example 2346. Authentication using a public key

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<?php

$connection = ssh2_connect('shell.example.com', 22, array('hostkey'=>'ssh-rsa'));


if (ssh2_auth_pubkey_file($connection, 'username',

                          '/home/username/.ssh/id_rsa.pub',

                          '/home/username/.ssh/id_rsa', 'secret')) {

  echo "Public Key Authentication Successful\n";

} else {

  die('Public Key Authentication Failed');

}
?>

This is probably incredibly insecure but if you are in a closed environment, you can run it at your own risk. I was trying to get ssh access from server A to server B but server A was running apache as 'apache' and I needed files on server B that were owned by root. So I needed some way for the apache user to connect to server B as root. Here's what I did (both servers running linux - specifically CentOS4): 1. ssh-keygen -t rsa -f id_rsa generate with no passphrase 2. append the id_rsa.pub file to server B /root/.ssh/authorized_keys2 3. copy the id_rsa and id_rsa.pub files to a directory like /var/www/.ssh/ (happens to be apache's home dir on CentOS) 4. chown -R apache.apache /var/www/.ssh Then you can connect like this: $connection = ssh2_connect($server,22,array('hostkey'=>'ssh-rsa')); if (ssh2_auth_pubkey_file($connection,'root', '/var/www/.ssh/id_rsa.pub', '/var/www/.ssh/id_rsa')) { echo "success!"; } else { echo "no success :-("; }

ssh2_auth_pubkey_file

Authenticate using a public key (PECL ssh2:0.10-0.9)
bool ssh2_auth_pubkey_file ( resource session, string username, string pubkeyfile, string privkeyfile [, string passphrase] )

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Return Values

Examples

Example 2346. Authentication using a public key

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ssh2_auth_pubkey_file

Authenticate using a public key (PECL ssh2:0.10-0.9) bool ssh2_auth_pubkey_file ( resource session, string username, string pubkeyfile, string privkeyfile [, string passphrase] )

Parameters

Return Values

Examples

Example 2346. Authentication using a public key

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Authenticate using a public key (PECL ssh2:0.10-0.9)
bool ssh2_auth_pubkey_file ( resource session, string username, string pubkeyfile, string privkeyfile [, string passphrase] )