My Google-Fu has failed me and i am stuck if any one can help I am trying to create a custom ssh shell in elixir using the erlang :ssh library so that i can ssh into my application with a restricted set of options/commands available. I can log in successfully (using passwords is fine for this use) …

Go to hex.pm and search for “ssh” and have a look at all the various packages. Maybe one of them already does what you want or something very similar.

Yes i have already tried that by looking at esshd and ssh_echo but can’t work out why its not working. I can connect, auth and see the shell started but have no idea how to read from or write to the ssh socket connection for the connected client. Following what the above libraries have done does n…

Hi, Did you ever make any progress with this. Regards, Brian

Hello, I’ve implemented (in erlang) a custom ssh shell: https://github.com/joaohf/elock/blob/mignon-21/src/elock_ssh_oob.erl https://github.com/joaohf/elock/blob/mignon-21/src/elock_ssh_cli.erl Based on: [image] Erlang Consultancy and Development - Erlang Solutions The world’s leadi…

Thanks for sharing that - i will look into your code in more detail when i revisit my project cheers shifters

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shifters98 July 30, 2020, 4:46pm 5

HI Brian,

sorry - no progress - i gave up in the end

Shifters