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Updated: Wednesday, July 27, 2022
 
 

CURLOPT_KEYPASSWD (3)

Name

CURLOPT_KEYPASSWD - passphrase to private key

Synopsis

#include <curl/curl.h>

CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_KEYPASSWD, char *pwd);

Description

CURLOPT_KEYPASSWD(3)       curl_easy_setopt options       CURLOPT_KEYPASSWD(3)



NAME
       CURLOPT_KEYPASSWD - passphrase to private key

SYNOPSIS
       #include <curl/curl.h>

       CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_KEYPASSWD, char *pwd);

DESCRIPTION
       Pass  a  pointer  to  a null-terminated string as parameter. It will be
       used as the password required to  use  the  CURLOPT_SSLKEY(3)  or  CUR-
       LOPT_SSH_PRIVATE_KEYFILE(3)  private  key.   You  never  needed  a pass
       phrase to load a certificate but you need one to load your private key.

       The application does not have to keep the string around  after  setting
       this option.

DEFAULT
       NULL

PROTOCOLS
       All TLS based protocols: HTTPS, FTPS, IMAPS, POP3S, SMTPS etc.

EXAMPLE
       CURL *curl = curl_easy_init();
       if(curl) {
         curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "https://example.com/foo.bin");
         curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_SSLCERT, "client.pem");
         curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_SSLKEY, "key.pem");
         curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_KEYPASSWD, "superman");
         ret = curl_easy_perform(curl);
         curl_easy_cleanup(curl);
       }

AVAILABILITY
       This  option  was  known  as CURLOPT_SSLKEYPASSWD up to 7.16.4 and CUR-
       LOPT_SSLCERTPASSWD up to 7.9.2.

RETURN VALUE
       Returns CURLE_OK  if  TLS  enabled,  CURLE_UNKNOWN_OPTION  if  not,  or
       CURLE_OUT_OF_MEMORY if there was insufficient heap space.


ATTRIBUTES
       See attributes(7) for descriptions of the following attributes:


       +---------------+------------------+
       |ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE  |
       +---------------+------------------+
       |Availability   | web/curl         |
       +---------------+------------------+
       |Stability      | Uncommitted      |
       +---------------+------------------+

SEE ALSO
       CURLOPT_SSLKEY(3), CURLOPT_SSH_PRIVATE_KEYFILE(3),



NOTES
       Source  code  for open source software components in Oracle Solaris can
       be found at https://www.oracle.com/downloads/opensource/solaris-source-
       code-downloads.html.

       This     software     was    built    from    source    available    at
       https://github.com/oracle/solaris-userland.   The  original   community
       source       was       downloaded      from       https://curl.se/down-
       load/curl-7.83.1.tar.bz2.

       Further information about this software can be found on the open source
       community website at http://curl.haxx.se/.



libcurl 7.83.1                 November 26, 2021          CURLOPT_KEYPASSWD(3)