C library for SSH

Scott Omar Burch scott.burch at camberwind.com
Thu Jun 3 04:41:05 EST 2004


Manimaran,

Use Public Key authentication with a key that doesn't have a passphrase 
or use a key with a passphrase and an agent..then your application won't 
need to send a password. Whatever you do don't store the private key on 
an NFS filesystem.

-Scott

Manimaran Subbaraj wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> 	I have a client/server architecture in which they
> don't reside on the same NIS or NFS domains. I need to
> make a SSH connection to the server from an
> application running on client. Since the application
> is not interactive, I am looking for an option in
> which I could send the password as an argument to the
> SSH call. The application has its source codes in C
> programming language.
> 
> 	Is there a C interface library for SSH available in
> IBM website, in which I could pass the password as an
> argument to a inbuilt routine to make a SSH
> connection? Or is there any other way I could
> workaround my requirement.
> 
> Thanks,
> Mani
> 
> 
> 
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