On Thu, 3 Dec 2015, Marcos Dione wrote: > > Hi everybody. First of all, I'm not subscribed to the list, so please > CC me in answers. > > Second, please don't kill me :) > > I'm suffering the fact that if I, as a developer, want to connect to > another machine via SSH, I must use a third party library[1]. Because > this is a reimplemetation of the protocol, it's always lagging behind, > which only makes sense. Personally, it also looks like a waste of > resources. > > This reimplementation comes, I think, from the fact that openssh does > not provide a library with a public API as an interface for developers. > So my question is: do you think it would make sense to provide such a > thing directly from the openssh project? We're slowly moving towards making parts of OpenSSH available as a library, but progress has been slow and we've mostly been focusing on cleanups and improving testability. In the meantime, I suggest you check out https://www.libssh.org/ -D _______________________________________________ openssh-unix-dev mailing list openssh-unix-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.mindrot.org/mailman/listinfo/openssh-unix-dev
