SSH client for Node.js [closed]

Question

Is there a SSH client for node.js I could use to communicate with a server?

Vaporization

Answer 1

An SSH2 client module written in pure JavaScript for node.js

https://github.com/mscdex/ssh2

Also checkout this wrapper for it

https://github.com/mikeal/sequest

Downstroke

It really works. I can login via ssh to my Cisco router and execute commands. – Gird

What do you think of this wrapper github.com/steelbrain/node-ssh – Silverstein

Answer 2

Node.js child processes won't do if you need to use a password for login, because OpenSSH client does not read the password from stdin, but from a pseudo terminal.

You can work around this by using pty.js:

var pty = require("pty.js");
var term = pty.spawn("ssh", ["username@localhost", "whoami"]);

term.on("data", function(data) {
  console.log("Incoming: " + data.toString());
});

// Wait a sec before sending the password. For proper implementation 
// you should wait for the password prompt.
setTimeout(function(){
  term.write("mypassword\n");
}, 1000);

This being said, you should always use SSH key pairs for this if possible.

Downstroke

Answer 3

Here are two other options:

• NodeSSH client
• node-control

The client is pretty solid and basic for general use. Node-control is more suited for parallel, async control over many machines (i.e. sys-admin work).

Maramarabel

Have you noticed that my Nickname is a part of the URL? ^^ The client code is mine. – Vaporization

@VanCoding lol haha. Always funny when someone answers with something you wrote. – Mohamedmohammad

@VanCoding - What was the purpose of your question if you've written this already? – Mabellemable

Answer 4

Much like with sftp in your earlier question, you could perhaps use the ssh client via a child process.

Cod

Ok I'll try it with that. Thanks! – Vaporization

Scraping command line tools works, but is a very fragile interface. An actual NPM module would be much more reliable. – Tacket