Net::SS...blicKey(3)

🎀 NAME 🎀

okay so this is Net::SSH2::PublicKey — it lives in the User Contributed Perl Documentation corner of your man pages, and it's your SSH 2 public key object 💖 (yes the header line up top is this same page, we're just vibing, bestie).

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

⚠️ WARNING: public key functionality in libssh2 is experimental and mostly abandoned. Don't expect anything on this module to work correctly. ⚠️

no like fr fr. that's not me being dramatic, that's the actual documented truth and I need you to sit with it. this corner of libssh2? abandoned. experimental. mostly abandoned. do not build your little dreams on it, bestie 💀

so. a public key object. where do you even get one? you don't make it yourself, nope — it gets created by the Net::SSH2 public_key method. that's the plug 🫶

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💅 METHODS 💅

🌸 add ( name, blob, overwrite flag, attributes... )

adds a brand new public key, iconic behavior ✨

and attributes? that's a list of hashes, and each one of those hashes has name, value, and mandatory keys. the little details: mandatory defaults to false, and value defaults to empty. slay 💖

🦋 remove ( name, blob )

removes the given public key. bye bestie 👋💀

👑 fetch

returns a list of public keys — in array context you get the whole list, in scalar context you get just the count (iykyk, classic Perl move).

each item in that list is a hash with keys name, blob, and attr. and attr? that's a hash too, with name, value, and mandatory keys. it's hashes all the way down, babes 🍓

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• Net::SSH2 — go here, this is the main character, this module is just its little sidekick 🎀

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okay that's the whole page, you're fully caught up bestie, go forth and maybe don't use this one 💜

this was perl v5.42.0, dated 2025-07-25, straight from the User Contributed Perl Documentation shelves ✨ mwah, take care of yourself 🫶