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Continue SFTP Keyboard-Interactive Authentication

Demonstrates the Chilkat SFtp.ContinueKeyboardAuth method, which submits a response to a keyboard-interactive prompt. The only argument is the response text; for a request with multiple prompts, an XML response is supplied instead. It returns XML indicating the next prompt or the final result.

Background: This is the second half of the exchange started by StartKeyboardAuth. A server may issue several rounds of prompts, so a robust client loops: submit answers, read the returned XML, and continue until it sees success or failure. On success, remember that InitializeSftp still must be called before any file operation.

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Dim fso, outFile
Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
'Create a Unicode (utf-16) output text file.
Set outFile = fso.CreateTextFile("output.txt", True, True)

success = 0

'  Demonstrates the SFtp.ContinueKeyboardAuth method, which submits a response to a
'  keyboard-interactive prompt.  The only argument is the response.  For multiple prompts, an
'  XML response is supplied instead.

set sftp = CreateObject("Chilkat.SFtp")

'  Step 1: Connect the SSH transport.  Port 22 is the usual port.
port = 22
success = sftp.Connect("sftp.example.com",port)
If (success = 0) Then
    outFile.WriteLine(sftp.LastErrorText)
    WScript.Quit
End If

'  Begin keyboard-interactive authentication to receive the server's prompt(s).
infoRequestXml = sftp.StartKeyboardAuth("mySshLogin")
If (sftp.LastMethodSuccess = 0) Then
    outFile.WriteLine(sftp.LastErrorText)
    WScript.Quit
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.
password = "mySshPassword"

'  Submit the response (typically the password).  The returned XML indicates the next prompt or
'  the final result.
result = sftp.ContinueKeyboardAuth(password)
If (sftp.LastMethodSuccess = 0) Then
    outFile.WriteLine(sftp.LastErrorText)
    WScript.Quit
End If

outFile.WriteLine(result)

'  On success, initialize the SFTP subsystem.
success = sftp.InitializeSftp()
If (success = 0) Then
    outFile.WriteLine(sftp.LastErrorText)
    WScript.Quit
End If

sftp.Disconnect 

outFile.Close