SFTP Object
 
Syntax
 
SFTP.AuthenticateSecPw(login As ChilkatSecureString, password As ChilkatSecureString) As Long
 
Description
The same as AuthenticatePw, but the login and password are passed in secure string objects.
 
Returns 1 for success, 0 for failure.
 
See Also

Example
Sub Main
 
Dim success As Long
 
'  Imagine we've previously saved our encrypted login and password within a JSON config file
'  that contains this:
 
'  {
'    "ssh_login": "2+qylFfC56Ck7OQQt/U2/w==",
'    "ssh_password": "5neIq9Jmn0E3p71N6Yc8TA=="
'  }
 
Dim json As New ChilkatJsonObject
success = json.LoadFile("qa_data/passwords/ssh.json")
 
Dim crypt As New ChilkatCrypt2
 
'  These are the encryption settings we previously used to encrypt the credentials within the JSON config file.
crypt.CryptAlgorithm = "aes"
crypt.CipherMode = "cbc"
crypt.KeyLength = 128
crypt.SetEncodedKey "000102030405060708090A0B0C0D0E0F","hex"
crypt.SetEncodedIV "000102030405060708090A0B0C0D0E0F","hex"
crypt.EncodingMode = "base64"
 
Dim ssLogin As New ChilkatSecureString
Dim ssPassword As New ChilkatSecureString
 
'  Decrypt to the secure string.  (the strings will still held in memory encrypted, but are now encrypted using
'  a randomly generated session key.)
success = crypt.DecryptSecureENC(json.StringOf("ssh_login"),ssLogin)
success = crypt.DecryptSecureENC(json.StringOf("ssh_password"),ssPassword)
 
success = sftp.Connect("MY-SSH-SERVER-DOMAIN-OR-IP",22)
If (success <> 1) Then
    Debug.Print sftp.LastErrorText
    Exit Sub
End If
 
'  Authenticate using secure strings
success = sftp.AuthenticateSecPw(ssLogin,ssPassword)
If (success <> 1) Then
    Debug.Print sftp.LastErrorText
    Exit Sub
End If
 
Debug.Print "SFTP Authentication successful."
 
sftp.Disconnect
 
End Sub