ExSshd

Simple Elixir SSH worker that provides an Elixir shell over SSH into your application. This is an Elixir port of erl_sshd but runs an elixir shell instead of an erlang shell.

Please note: exit only works client side (~.) or making the process crash (h) (it won’t crash the application and the SSH daemon will restart itself)

Installation

Add it to your mix.exs file like either one of this:

defp deps do
  [{:ex_sshd, github: "tverlaan/ex_sshd"},
  {:ex_sshd, "~> 0.1.0"}]
end

Then ensure ex_sshd is started before your application:

def application do
  [applications: [:ex_sshd]]
end

Configuration

You can use SSH keys and/or usernames and passwords for authentication. I would recommend using keys.

Using keys

Either use the make_keys bash script or use make_host_key and put your own key in priv/ex_sshd/authorized_keys

Using username/password combo

First run the make_host_key script and then add username and password combinations to the configuration as in the example below.

Example

config :ex_sshd,
  app: :your_application_name,
  port: 10022,
  credentials: [{"username", "password"}]

TODO

• ~To support h (IEx helper function) we need ansi support in the SSH channel, right now you could use the following configuration to make it work:~

config :elixir,
  ansi_enabled: true  # used to be false

• Proper way to exit from the server side. Right now only ~. from the client is supported to exit.