Perl

SSH Authenticate with a Password

Demonstrates the Chilkat Ssh.AuthenticatePw method, which authenticates a connected SSH session with a login name and password. The first argument is the login and the second is the password. Call Connect first.

Background: Password authentication is the simplest SSH method, but the password is a secret and should never be a hard-coded literal — obtain it from an interactive prompt, an environment variable, or a secrets vault. On failure, inspect AuthFailReason to distinguish a bad password from a not-connected or already-authenticated state. Public-key authentication is generally preferred for automated jobs.

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use chilkat();

$success = 0;

#  Demonstrates the Ssh.AuthenticatePw method, which authenticates a connected SSH session with
#  a login name and password.  The 1st argument is the login and the 2nd is the password.

$ssh = chilkat::CkSsh->new();

#  Connect to the SSH server.  Port 22 is the usual SSH port.
$sshPort = 22;
$success = $ssh->Connect("ssh.example.com",$sshPort);
if ($success == 0) {
    print $ssh->lastErrorText() . "\r\n";
    exit;
}

#  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.
$password = "mySshPassword";

$success = $ssh->AuthenticatePw("mySshLogin",$password);
if ($success == 0) {
    print $ssh->lastErrorText() . "\r\n";
    exit;
}

print "Authenticated." . "\r\n";

$ssh->Disconnect();