Perl

SSH Tunnel Authenticate with a Password

Demonstrates the Chilkat SshTunnel.AuthenticatePw method, which authenticates the SSH connection with a login name and password. The first argument is the login and the second is the password. Connect first, and call BeginAccepting afterward.

Background: Password authentication is the simplest option, 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. Public-key authentication is generally preferred for the unattended, long-running services that tunnels often are.

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use chilkat();

$success = 0;

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

$tunnel = chilkat::CkSshTunnel->new();

#  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.
$sshPort = 22;
$success = $tunnel->Connect("ssh.example.com",$sshPort);
if ($success == 0) {
    print $tunnel->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 = $tunnel->AuthenticatePw("mySshLogin",$password);
if ($success == 0) {
    print $tunnel->lastErrorText() . "\r\n";
    exit;
}

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

#  After authenticating, call BeginAccepting to start listening for local connections to forward.

$waitForThreadExit = 1;
$success = $tunnel->CloseTunnel($waitForThreadExit);
if ($success == 0) {
    print $tunnel->lastErrorText() . "\r\n";
    exit;
}