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SFTP Authenticate Secure

Demonstrates how to do SFTP password authentication with secure strings.

This example requires Chilkat v9.5.0.71 or greater.

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NODEJS_PRELUDE

function chilkatExample() {

    var success = false;

    // This example requires the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
    // See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

    // Imagine we've previously saved our encrypted login and password within a JSON config file
    // that contains this:

    // {
    //   "ssh_login": "2+qylFfC56Ck7OQQt/U2/w==",
    //   "ssh_password": "5neIq9Jmn0E3p71N6Yc8TA=="
    // }

    var json = new chilkat.JsonObject();
    json.LoadFile("qa_data/passwords/ssh.json");

    var crypt = new chilkat.Crypt2();

    // These are the encryption settings we previously used to encrypt the credentials within the JSON config file.
    crypt.CryptAlgorithm = "aes";
    crypt.CipherMode = "cbc";
    crypt.KeyLength = 128;
    crypt.SetEncodedKey("000102030405060708090A0B0C0D0E0F","hex");
    crypt.SetEncodedIV("000102030405060708090A0B0C0D0E0F","hex");
    crypt.EncodingMode = "base64";

    var ssLogin = new chilkat.SecureString();
    var ssPassword = new chilkat.SecureString();

    // Decrypt to the secure string.  (the strings will still held in memory encrypted, but are now encrypted using
    // a randomly generated session key.)
    crypt.DecryptSecureENC(json.StringOf("ssh_login"),ssLogin);
    crypt.DecryptSecureENC(json.StringOf("ssh_password"),ssPassword);

    var sftp = new chilkat.SFtp();

    success = sftp.Connect("MY-SSH-SERVER-DOMAIN-OR-IP",22);
    if (success !== true) {
        console.log(sftp.LastErrorText);
        return;
    }

    // Authenticate using secure strings
    success = sftp.AuthenticateSecPw(ssLogin,ssPassword);
    if (success !== true) {
        console.log(sftp.LastErrorText);
        return;
    }

    console.log("SFTP Authentication successful.");

    sftp.Disconnect();

}

chilkatExample();