public API

[Damien Miller]

On Thu, 3 Dec 2015, Marcos Dione wrote:

> 
>     Hi everybody. First of all, I'm not subscribed to the list, so please
> CC me in answers.
> 
>     Second, please don't kill me :)
> 
>     I'm suffering the fact that if I, as a developer, want to connect to
> another machine via SSH, I must use a third party library[1]. Because
> this is a reimplemetation of the protocol, it's always lagging behind,
> which only makes sense. Personally, it also looks like a waste of
> resources.
> 
>     This reimplementation comes, I think, from the fact that openssh does
> not provide a library with a public API as an interface for developers.
> So my question is: do you think it would make sense to provide such a
> thing directly from the openssh project?

We're slowly moving towards making parts of OpenSSH available as a library,
but progress has been slow and we've mostly been focusing on cleanups and
improving testability.

In the meantime, I suggest you check out https://www.libssh.org/

-D