SSH Authenticate with a SecureString Password

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Demonstrates the Chilkat Ssh.AuthenticateSecPw method, which performs the same authentication as AuthenticatePw but receives the login and password as SecureString objects. The first argument is the login and the second is the password.

integer li_rc
integer li_Success
oleobject loo_Ssh
integer li_SshPort
string ls_Password
oleobject loo_SecureLogin
oleobject loo_SecurePassword

li_Success = 0

//  Demonstrates the Ssh.AuthenticateSecPw method, which authenticates using SecureString login
//  and password objects.  The 1st argument is the login and the 2nd is the password.

loo_Ssh = create oleobject
li_rc = loo_Ssh.ConnectToNewObject("Chilkat.Ssh")
if li_rc < 0 then
    destroy loo_Ssh
    MessageBox("Error","Connecting to COM object failed")
    return
end if

//  Connect to the SSH server.  Port 22 is the usual SSH port.
li_SshPort = 22
li_Success = loo_Ssh.Connect("ssh.example.com",li_SshPort)
if li_Success = 0 then
    Write-Debug loo_Ssh.LastErrorText
    destroy loo_Ssh
    return
end if

//  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.
ls_Password = "mySshPassword"

//  Place the login and password into SecureString objects.
loo_SecureLogin = create oleobject
li_rc = loo_SecureLogin.ConnectToNewObject("Chilkat.SecureString")

loo_SecureLogin.Append("mySshLogin")
loo_SecurePassword = create oleobject
li_rc = loo_SecurePassword.ConnectToNewObject("Chilkat.SecureString")

loo_SecurePassword.Append(ls_Password)

li_Success = loo_Ssh.AuthenticateSecPw(loo_SecureLogin,loo_SecurePassword)
if li_Success = 0 then
    Write-Debug loo_Ssh.LastErrorText
    destroy loo_Ssh
    destroy loo_SecureLogin
    destroy loo_SecurePassword
    return
end if

Write-Debug "Authenticated."

loo_Ssh.Disconnect()


destroy loo_Ssh
destroy loo_SecureLogin
destroy loo_SecurePassword