SSH Authenticate with a Password

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Demonstrates the Chilkat Ssh.AuthenticatePw method, which authenticates a connected SSH session with a login name and password. The first argument is the login and the second is the password. Call Connect first.

Background: Password authentication is the simplest SSH method, but the password is a secret and should never be a hard-coded literal — obtain it from an interactive prompt, an environment variable, or a secrets vault. On failure, inspect AuthFailReason to distinguish a bad password from a not-connected or already-authenticated state. Public-key authentication is generally preferred for automated jobs.

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#include <C_CkSsh.h>

void ChilkatSample(void)
    {
    BOOL success;
    HCkSsh ssh;
    int sshPort;
    const char *password;

    success = FALSE;

    //  Demonstrates the Ssh.AuthenticatePw method, which authenticates a connected SSH session with
    //  a login name and password.  The 1st argument is the login and the 2nd is the password.

    ssh = CkSsh_Create();

    //  Connect to the SSH server.  Port 22 is the usual SSH port.
    sshPort = 22;
    success = CkSsh_Connect(ssh,"ssh.example.com",sshPort);
    if (success == FALSE) {
        printf("%s\n",CkSsh_lastErrorText(ssh));
        CkSsh_Dispose(ssh);
        return;
    }

    //  Normally you would not hard-code the password in source.  You should instead obtain it
    //  from an interactive prompt, environment variable, or a secrets vault.
    password = "mySshPassword";

    success = CkSsh_AuthenticatePw(ssh,"mySshLogin",password);
    if (success == FALSE) {
        printf("%s\n",CkSsh_lastErrorText(ssh));
        CkSsh_Dispose(ssh);
        return;
    }

    printf("Authenticated.\n");

    CkSsh_Disconnect(ssh);


    CkSsh_Dispose(ssh);

    }