libssh2/docs/libssh2_knownhost_readfile.md

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c	SPDX-License-Identifier	Title	Section	Source	See-also
Copyright (C) Daniel Stenberg	BSD-3-Clause	libssh2_knownhost_readfile	3	libssh2	libssh2_knownhost_check(3) libssh2_knownhost_free(3) libssh2_knownhost_init(3)

NAME

libssh2_knownhost_readfile - parse a file of known hosts

SYNOPSIS

#include <libssh2.h>

int libssh2_knownhost_readfile(LIBSSH2_KNOWNHOSTS *hosts,
                               const char *filename, int type);

DESCRIPTION

Reads a collection of known hosts from a specified file and adds them to the collection of known hosts.

filename specifies which file to read

type specifies what file type it is, and LIBSSH2_KNOWNHOST_FILE_OPENSSH is the only currently supported format. This file is normally found named ~/.ssh/known_hosts

RETURN VALUE

Returns a negative value, a regular libssh2 error code for errors, or a positive number as number of parsed known hosts in the file.

AVAILABILITY

Added in libssh2 1.2