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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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require 'chilkat'

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=="
# }

json = Chilkat::CkJsonObject.new()
json.LoadFile("qa_data/passwords/ssh.json")

crypt = Chilkat::CkCrypt2.new()

# These are the encryption settings we previously used to encrypt the credentials within the JSON config file.
crypt.put_CryptAlgorithm("aes")
crypt.put_CipherMode("cbc")
crypt.put_KeyLength(128)
crypt.SetEncodedKey("000102030405060708090A0B0C0D0E0F","hex")
crypt.SetEncodedIV("000102030405060708090A0B0C0D0E0F","hex")
crypt.put_EncodingMode("base64")

ssLogin = Chilkat::CkSecureString.new()
ssPassword = Chilkat::CkSecureString.new()

# 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)

sftp = Chilkat::CkSFtp.new()

success = sftp.Connect("MY-SSH-SERVER-DOMAIN-OR-IP",22)
if (success != true)
    print sftp.lastErrorText() + "\n";
    exit
end

# Authenticate using secure strings
success = sftp.AuthenticateSecPw(ssLogin,ssPassword)
if (success != true)
    print sftp.lastErrorText() + "\n";
    exit
end

print "SFTP Authentication successful." + "\n";

sftp.Disconnect()