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From: Andreas Almroth <andreas_NOXSPAM@almroth.com>
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Subject: Re: SSH Sessions ?
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 07:57:59 +0100
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Chris Humphries wrote:
> Georg Bauhaus <sb463ba@l1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de> wrote in message news:<cf8iab$qav$1@a1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de>...
> 
>>Chris Humphries <chris@unixfu.net> wrote:
>>:   Has anyone written or have a way to do SSH sessions via ADA?
>>: 
> 
> I was told I could use C libraries and call methods from them from
> within ADA. Is this true, and if so, could I use the existing 
> openssl/openssh libraries to implement SSH in ADA? That seems like
> too much work and why not just use Perl (best tool for the job/time?).
> 

Calling C API is generally not a problem if properly done.
To answer your question; As there is no, to my knowledge, API to SSH, 
you will either first have to write a binding to OpenSSL, or try to 
re-use the SSL part of AWS, and then code the SSH functionality on top. 
This would be really something nice for the Ada community though, but 
perhaps a bit too much to ask for.

The other way is to call the ssh client using either system or pipes, as 
  the other messages in this thread points out. I think this might be 
the way that Perl and Java does it.

/Andreas