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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?>
+<!DOCTYPE chapter SYSTEM "chapter.dtd">
+
+<chapter>
+ <header>
+ <copyright>
+ <year>2012</year>
+ <holder>Ericsson AB. All Rights Reserved.</holder>
+ </copyright>
+ <legalnotice>
+ The contents of this file are subject to the Erlang Public License,
+ Version 1.1, (the "License"); you may not use this file except in
+ compliance with the License. You should have received a copy of the
+ Erlang Public License along with this software. If not, it can be
+ retrieved online at http://www.erlang.org/.
+
+ Software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS"
+ basis, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See
+ the License for the specific language governing rights and limitations
+ under the License.
+
+ </legalnotice>
+
+ <title>Getting started</title>
+ <file>using_ssh.xml</file>
+ </header>
+
+ <section>
+ <title> General information</title>
+ <p>The examples in the following sections use the utility function
+ <seealso marker="ssh#start"> ssh:start/0 </seealso> that starts
+ all needed applications (crypto, public_key and ssh). All examples
+ are run in an Erlang shell, or in a bash shell using openssh to
+ illustrate how the erlang ssh application can be used. The
+ exampels are run as the user otptest on a local network where the
+ user is authorized to login in over ssh to the host "tarlop". If
+ nothing else is stated it is persumed that the otptest user has an
+ entry in tarlop's authorized_keys file (may log in via ssh without
+ entering a password). Also tarlop is a known host in the user
+ otptests known_hosts file so that host verification can be done
+ without user interaction.
+ </p>
+ </section>
+
+ <section>
+ <title>Using the Erlang SSH Terminal Client</title>
+
+ <p>The user otptest, that has bash as default shell, uses the
+ ssh:shell/1 client to connect to the openssh daemon running on a
+ host called tarlop. Note that currently this client is very simple
+ and you should not be expected to be as fancy as the openssh
+ client.</p>
+
+ <code type="erl" >
+ 1> ssh:start().
+ ok
+ 2> {ok, S} = ssh:shell("tarlop").
+ >pwd
+ /home/otptest
+ >exit
+ logout
+ 3>
+ </code>
+ </section>
+
+ <section>
+ <title>Running an Erlang SSH Daemon </title>
+
+ <p> The option system_dir must be a directory containing a host
+ key file and it defaults to /etc/ssh. For details see section
+ Configuration Files in <seealso
+ marker="ssh_app">ssh(6)</seealso>.
+ </p>
+
+ <note><p>Normaly the /etc/ssh directory is only readable by root. </p>
+ </note>
+
+ <p> The option user_dir defaults to the users ~/.ssh directory</p>
+
+ <p>In the following exampel we have generate new keys and host keys as
+ to be able to run the example without having root privilages</p>
+
+ <code>
+ $bash> ssh-keygen -t rsa -f /tmp/ssh_daemon/ssh_host_rsa_key
+ [...]
+ $bash> ssh-keygen -t rsa -f /tmp/otptest_user/.ssh/id_rsa
+ [...]
+ </code>
+
+ <p>And add the public hostkey to the known_hosts file of the user otptest. Then we can do</p>
+
+ <code type="erl">
+ 1> ssh:start().
+ ok
+ 2> {ok, Sshd} = ssh:daemon(8989, [{system_dir, "/tmp/ssh_daemon/ssh_host_rsa_key"},
+ {user_dir, "/tmp/otptest_user/.ssh"}]).
+ {ok,&lt;0.54.0>}
+ 3>
+ </code>
+
+ <p>Use the openssh client from a shell to connect to the Erlang ssh daemon.</p>
+
+ <code>
+ $bash> ssh tarlop -p 8989 -i /tmp/otptest_user/.ssh/id_rsa
+ Eshell V5.10 (abort with ^G)
+ 1>
+ </code>
+
+ <p>There is two ways of shuting down an SSH daemon</p>
+
+ <p>1: Stops the listener, but leaves existing connections started by the listener up and running.</p>
+
+ <code type="erl">
+ 3> ssh:stop_listener(Sshd).
+ ok
+ 4>
+ </code>
+
+ <p>2: Stops the listener and all connections started by the listener.</p>
+
+ <code type="erl">
+ 3> ssh:stop_daemon(Sshd)
+ ok
+ 4>
+ </code>
+
+ </section>
+
+ <section>
+ <title>One Time Execution</title>
+
+ <p>In the following example the Erlang shell is the client process
+ that receives the channel replies. <note> If you run this example
+ in your environment you may get fewer or more messages back as
+ this depends on the OS and shell on the machine running the ssh
+ daemon. See also <seealso marker="ssh_connection#exec-4">ssh_connection:exec/4</seealso>
+ </note>
+ </p>
+
+ <code type="erl" >
+ 1> ssh:start().
+ ok
+ 2> {ok, ConnectionRef} = ssh:connect("tarlop", 22, []).
+ {ok,&lt;0.57.0>}
+ 3>{ok, ChannelId} = ssh_connection:session_channel(ConnectionRef, infinity).
+ {ok,0}
+ 4> success = ssh_connection:exec(ConnectionRef, ChannelId, "pwd", infinity).
+ 5> flush().
+ Shell got {ssh_cm,&lt;0.57.0>,{data,0,0,&lt;&lt;"/home/otptest\n">>}}
+ Shell got {ssh_cm,&lt;0.57.0>,{eof,0}}
+ Shell got {ssh_cm,&lt;0.57.0>,{exit_status,0,0}}
+ Shell got {ssh_cm,&lt;0.57.0>,{closed,0}}
+ ok
+ 6>
+ </code>
+
+ <p>Note only the channel is closed the connection is still up and can handle other channels</p>
+
+ <code type="erl" >
+ 6> {ok, NewChannelId} = ssh_connection:session_channel(ConnectionRef, infinity).
+ {ok,1}
+ ...
+ </code>
+ </section>
+
+ <section>
+ <title>SFTP (SSH File Transport Protocol) server</title>
+
+ <code type="erl" >
+ 1> ssh:start().
+ ok
+ 2> ssh:daemon(8989, [{system_dir, "."},
+ {subsystems, [ssh_sftpd:subsystem_spec([{cwd, "/tmp/sftp/example"}])]}]).
+ {ok,&lt;0.54.0>}
+ 3>
+ </code>
+
+ <p> Run the openssh sftp client</p>
+
+ <code type="erl">
+ $bash> sftp -oPort=8989 tarlop
+ Connecting to tarlop...
+ sftp> pwd
+ Remote working directory: /tmp/sftp/example
+ sftp>
+ </code>
+ </section>
+
+ <section>
+ <title>SFTP (SSH File Transport Protocol) client</title>
+
+ <code type="erl" >
+ 1> ssh:start().
+ ok
+ 2> {ok, ChannelPid, Connection} = ssh_sftp:start_channel("tarlop", []).
+ {ok,&lt;0.57.0>,&lt;0.51.0>}
+ 3> ssh_sftp:read_file(ChannelPid, "/home/otptest/test.txt").
+ {ok,&lt;&lt;"This is a test file\n">>}
+ </code>
+ </section>
+
+ <section>
+ <title>Creating a subsystem</title>
+
+ <p>A very small SSH subsystem that echos N bytes could be implemented like this.</p>
+
+ <code type="erl" >
+-module(ssh_echo_server).
+-behaviour(ssh_channel).
+-record(state, {
+ n,
+ id,
+ cm
+ }).
+-export([init/1, handle_msg/2, handle_ssh_msg/2, terminate/2]).
+
+init([N]) ->
+ {ok, #state{n = N}}.
+
+handle_msg({ssh_channel_up, ChannelId, ConnectionManager}, State) ->
+ {ok, State#state{id = ChannelId,
+ cm = ConnectionManager}}.
+
+handle_ssh_msg({ssh_cm, CM, {data, ChannelId, 0, Data}}, #state{n = N} = State) ->
+ M = N - size(Data),
+ case M > 0 of
+ true ->
+ ssh_connection:send(CM, ChannelId, Data),
+ {ok, State#state{n = M}};
+ false ->
+ &lt;&lt;SendData:N/binary, _/binary>> = Data,
+ ssh_connection:send(CM, ChannelId, SendData),
+ ssh_connection:send_eof(CM, ChannelId),
+ {stop, ChannelId, State}
+ end;
+handle_ssh_msg({ssh_cm, _ConnectionManager,
+ {data, _ChannelId, 1, Data}}, State) ->
+ error_logger:format(standard_error, " ~p~n", [binary_to_list(Data)]),
+ {ok, State};
+
+handle_ssh_msg({ssh_cm, _ConnectionManager, {eof, _ChannelId}}, State) ->
+ {ok, State};
+
+handle_ssh_msg({ssh_cm, _, {signal, _, _}}, State) ->
+ %% Ignore signals according to RFC 4254 section 6.9.
+ {ok, State};
+
+handle_ssh_msg({ssh_cm, _, {exit_signal, ChannelId, _, _Error, _}},
+ State) ->
+ {stop, ChannelId, State};
+
+handle_ssh_msg({ssh_cm, _, {exit_status, ChannelId, _Status}}, State) ->
+ {stop, ChannelId, State}.
+
+terminate(_Reason, _State) ->
+ ok.
+ </code>
+
+ <p>And run like this on the host tarlop with the keys generated in section 3.3</p>
+
+ <code type="erl" >
+ 1> ssh:start().
+ ok
+ 2> ssh:daemon(8989, [{system_dir, "/tmp/ssh_daemon/ssh_host_rsa_key"},
+ {user_dir, "/tmp/otptest_user/.ssh"}
+ {subsystems, [{"echo_n", {ssh_echo_server, [10]}}]}]).
+ {ok,&lt;0.54.0>}
+ 3>
+ </code>
+
+ <code type="erl" >
+ 1> ssh:start().
+ ok
+ 2>{ok, ConnectionRef} = ssh:connect("tarlop", 8989, [{user_dir, "/tmp/otptest_user/.ssh"}]).
+ {ok,&lt;0.57.0>}
+ 3>{ok, ChannelId} = ssh_connection:session_channel(ConnectionRef, infinity).
+ 4> success = ssh_connection:subsystem(ConnectionRef, ChannelId, "echo_n", infinity).
+ 5> ok = ssh_connection:send(ConnectionRef, ChannelId, "0123456789", infinity),
+ 6> flush().
+ {ssh_msg, &lt;0.57.0>, {data, 0, 1, "0123456789"}}
+ {ssh_msg, &lt;0.57.0>, {eof, 0}}
+ {ssh_msg, &lt;0.57.0>, {closed, 0}}
+ 7> {error, closed} = ssh_connection:send(ConnectionRef, ChannelId, "10", infinity),
+ </code>
+
+</section>
+
+</chapter>