Java

Start SFTP Keyboard-Interactive Authentication

Demonstrates the Chilkat SFtp.StartKeyboardAuth method, which begins keyboard-interactive authentication. The only argument is the login name. It returns XML describing the server's prompts, which are answered with ContinueKeyboardAuth.

Background: Keyboard-interactive is the prompt-driven authentication method: rather than assuming a single password, the server sends one or more questions — a password, a one-time code, a security question — and the client answers each. This is how SFTP supports two-factor and other challenge-response schemes. The returned XML tells you exactly what to ask and whether to mask the input.

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import com.chilkatsoft.*;

public class ChilkatExample {

  static {
    try {
        System.loadLibrary("chilkat");
    } catch (UnsatisfiedLinkError e) {
      System.err.println("Native code library failed to load.\n" + e);
      System.exit(1);
    }
  }

  public static void main(String argv[])
  {
    boolean success = false;

    //  Demonstrates the SFtp.StartKeyboardAuth method, which begins keyboard-interactive
    //  authentication.  The only argument is the login name.  It returns XML describing the server's
    //  prompts, which are answered with ContinueKeyboardAuth.

    CkSFtp sftp = new CkSFtp();

    //  Step 1: Connect the SSH transport.  Port 22 is the usual port.
    int port = 22;
    success = sftp.Connect("sftp.example.com",port);
    if (success == false) {
        System.out.println(sftp.lastErrorText());
        return;
        }

    //  Begin keyboard-interactive authentication.  The returned XML describes the server's prompts.
    String infoRequestXml = sftp.startKeyboardAuth("mySshLogin");
    if (sftp.get_LastMethodSuccess() == false) {
        System.out.println(sftp.lastErrorText());
        return;
        }

    System.out.println(infoRequestXml);

    //  Answer the prompt(s) with ContinueKeyboardAuth, then call InitializeSftp.

    sftp.Disconnect();
  }
}