Implement a SSH client

From: Patrick Li (pcwli@shaw.ca)
Date: 04/29/02 

From: pcwli@shaw.ca (Patrick Li)
Date: 29 Apr 2002 12:39:46 -0700

Hi,

I need to implement some APIs to enable an application to communicate
with a SSH server. Basically, the APIs will let the application to
run some programs and shell scripts at a remote machine running the
SSH server.

I want to know if there are any SSH implementation that provides
client api interface?

If not, then I think I have to implement something like below.
- open a tcp connection to the SSH server
- perform the handshake
- call the OpenSSL crypto APIs to encrypt and decrypt the message sent
to and receive from the server.
- retreive the return code of the command executed.
- close the connection.

Comments?

Thanks,
Patrick

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