On Mon, 18 Apr 2011, Michael Lam wrote:

> I guess what I don't understand is why I have to specify the location of the
> public key locally and not on the server.

Because you use a local file. The SFTP client, curl in this case, needs to use
both a private and a public key when it connects and authenticates with the
server.

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