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Disconnect from an SSH Server

Demonstrates the Chilkat Ssh.Disconnect method, which closes the current SSH transport. It takes no arguments, is harmless to call when nothing is connected, and may be called repeatedly.

Background: Disconnecting tears down the transport and every channel opened on it; afterward IsConnected is false and NumOpenChannels is 0. Bytes already buffered for a former channel can still be read after disconnect, which is useful when you want to drain a command's final output before releasing the session.

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#include <CkSsh.h>

void ChilkatSample(void)
    {
    bool success = false;

    //  Demonstrates the Ssh.Disconnect method, which closes the current SSH transport.  It takes no
    //  arguments, is safe to call when no connection exists, and may be called repeatedly.

    CkSsh ssh;

    //  Connect to the SSH server.  Port 22 is the usual SSH port.
    int sshPort = 22;
    success = ssh.Connect("ssh.example.com",sshPort);
    if (success == false) {
        std::cout << ssh.lastErrorText() << "\r\n";
        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.
    const char *password = "mySshPassword";

    success = ssh.AuthenticatePw("mySshLogin",password);
    if (success == false) {
        std::cout << ssh.lastErrorText() << "\r\n";
        return;
    }

    //  ... use the SSH connection ...

    //  Close the SSH connection.
    ssh.Disconnect();
    }