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SSH Authenticate with a SecureString Password and Private Key

Demonstrates the Chilkat Ssh.AuthenticateSecPwPk method, which performs the same combined password/private-key authentication as AuthenticatePwPk but receives the username and password as SecureString objects. The third argument is the SshKey private key.

Note: The private-key path is relative to the application's current working directory. Supply the path to your own key file.

Background: This is the SecureString form of multi-factor SSH authentication: the password is held encrypted in memory and combined with a private key for servers that require both. It is the most protective option when a deployment mandates two-factor SSH and you also want to minimize plaintext credential exposure in the process.

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Local $bSuccess = False

;  Demonstrates the Ssh.AuthenticateSecPwPk method, which authenticates using SecureString login
;  and password objects together with a private key.  The 1st argument is the username, the 2nd
;  is the password, and the 3rd is an SshKey private key.

$oSsh = ObjCreate("Chilkat.Ssh")

;  Connect to the SSH server.  Port 22 is the usual SSH port.
Local $iSshPort = 22
$bSuccess = $oSsh.Connect("ssh.example.com",$iSshPort)
If ($bSuccess = False) Then
    ConsoleWrite($oSsh.LastErrorText & @CRLF)
    Exit
EndIf

;  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.
Local $sPassword = "mySshPassword"

;  Load the SSH private key.  LoadText reads the file's text, which is then imported.
$oPrivKey = ObjCreate("Chilkat.SshKey")
Local $sKeyStr = $oPrivKey.LoadText("qa_data/id_rsa")
If ($oPrivKey.LastMethodSuccess = False) Then
    ConsoleWrite($oPrivKey.LastErrorText & @CRLF)
    Exit
EndIf

$bSuccess = $oPrivKey.FromOpenSshPrivateKey($sKeyStr)
If ($bSuccess = False) Then
    ConsoleWrite($oPrivKey.LastErrorText & @CRLF)
    Exit
EndIf

;  Place the login and password into SecureString objects.
$oSecureLogin = ObjCreate("Chilkat.SecureString")
$oSecureLogin.Append("mySshLogin")
$oSecurePassword = ObjCreate("Chilkat.SecureString")
$oSecurePassword.Append($sPassword)

$bSuccess = $oSsh.AuthenticateSecPwPk($oSecureLogin,$oSecurePassword,$oPrivKey)
If ($bSuccess = False) Then
    ConsoleWrite($oSsh.LastErrorText & @CRLF)
    Exit
EndIf

ConsoleWrite("Authenticated." & @CRLF)

$oSsh.Disconnect