Continue SSH Tunnel Keyboard-Interactive Authentication

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Demonstrates the Chilkat SshTunnel.ContinueKeyboardAuth method, which submits a response to a keyboard-interactive prompt. The only argument is the response text; for a request with multiple prompts, an XML response is supplied instead. It returns XML indicating the next prompt or the final result.

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 SshTunnel.ContinueKeyboardAuth method, which submits a response to a
    //  keyboard-interactive prompt.  The only argument is the response.  For multiple prompts, an XML
    //  response is supplied instead.

    CkSshTunnel tunnel = new CkSshTunnel();

    //  The tunnel forwards accepted local connections to this destination through the SSH server.
    tunnel.put_DestHostname("db.internal.example.com");
    tunnel.put_DestPort(5432);

    //  Connect to the SSH server.  This performs the TCP/proxy connection and SSH handshake, but
    //  does not authenticate yet.
    int sshPort = 22;
    success = tunnel.Connect("ssh.example.com",sshPort);
    if (success == false) {
        System.out.println(tunnel.lastErrorText());
        return;
        }

    //  Begin keyboard-interactive authentication to receive the server's prompt(s).
    String infoRequestXml = tunnel.startKeyboardAuth("mySshLogin");
    if (tunnel.get_LastMethodSuccess() == false) {
        System.out.println(tunnel.lastErrorText());
        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.
    String password = "mySshPassword";

    //  Submit the response (typically the password).  The returned XML indicates the next prompt or
    //  the final result.
    String result = tunnel.continueKeyboardAuth(password);
    if (tunnel.get_LastMethodSuccess() == false) {
        System.out.println(tunnel.lastErrorText());
        return;
        }

    System.out.println(result);

    boolean waitForThreadExit = true;
    success = tunnel.CloseTunnel(waitForThreadExit);
    if (success == false) {
        System.out.println(tunnel.lastErrorText());
        return;
        }
  }
}