Status for SSH in FreePascal (libSSH2 bindings in particular)?
lazarus / 38-Networking and Web Programming

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saml · 2015-09-07 11:18

Howdy Pascal folks!

I'm looking into building a cross-platform client to our high
performance computing cluster (linux), and thus would need a solid SSH
library to use.

I have tried to read up on the wiki and forums a bit, and what I find
is that the libSSH2 library seems like the most promising, as it
allows OpenSSH format private keys (which I think some of our users
would appreciate). But the wiki says the FPC bindings are still being
developed.

That wiki page isn't updated in more than a year though, so I'm
wondering:

1. Anyone knows the current status of the libSSH2 FPC bindings?
2. Is there any other (cross-platform) solution that is more suitable
to use?
3. Do you know of any existing similar open-source FPC project, or at
least one that that uses SSH ... that I could use as an example?
(including link to the sources, thanks, if so  ).

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saml · 2015-09-07 14:31

Ok, I've managed to find two resources now, by googling a bit deeper,
that contains a bit of code examples, so I post them here for cross-
reference:
A small test program establishing a terminal connection using
libssh2An object oriented synapse based SSH client (for Delphi 7)Still
interested in any news regarding libSSH2 or general SSH status in FPC.

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snorkel · 2015-12-22 22:56

Take a look at securebridge from devart.com
Best SSH library for Lazarus, has tunnel, server and client support as
well as SFTP client and server.