Programmatic interface to ssh

ux9i_at_yahoo.com
Date: 07/20/05 

Date: 20 Jul 2005 08:08:09 -0700

I'm modifying a program that previously used a telnet connection to
communicate to a server. The program had control of input and output
to the telnet session, as if a user was typing at a command prompt. In
general a program using telnet is sometimes called an MML or CLI
interface [man-machine language or command-line interface].

My mission is to replace telnet with ssh. I have searched this group
and the OpenSSH and OpenSSL sites for some time and there seems to be
no library that allows a program to access an ssh shell.

One idea I had was to pore over Putty code to see how the Putty program
uses OpenSSL or OpenSSH libraries to achieve a command-line interface,
and figure out how to rewire it so the program has control of input and
output.

I had hoped that when the program runs it could use the ~/.ssh
directory files or else fallback to password login to the remote
server.

Is there a good way to program to ssh? There seems to be no library
for a program to do this sort of thing.

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