curl/docs/cmdline-opts/hostpubsha256.md

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c: Copyright (C) Daniel Stenberg, daniel@haxx.se, et al. SPDX-License-Identifier: curl Long: hostpubsha256 Arg: Help: Acceptable SHA256 hash of host public key Protocols: SFTP SCP Added: 7.80.0 Category: sftp scp Multi: single See-also:

• hostpubmd5 Example:
• --hostpubsha256 NDVkMTQxMGQ1ODdmMjQ3MjczYjAyOTY5MmRkMjVmNDQ= sftp://example.com/ ---

--hostpubsha256

Pass a string containing a Base64-encoded SHA256 hash of the remote host's public key. Curl refuses the connection with the host unless the hashes match.

This feature requires libcurl to be built with libssh2 and does not work with other SSH backends.