Struct openssh::Session

pub struct Session { /* fields omitted */ }

A single SSH session to a remote host.

You can use [command] to start a new command on the connected machine.

When the Session is dropped, the connection to the remote host is severed, and any errors silently ignored. To disconnect and be alerted to errors, use close.

Implementations

impl Session

pub async fn connect<S: AsRef<str>>(
    destination: S,
    check: KnownHosts
) -> Result<Self, Error>

Connect to the host at the given addr over SSH.

The format of destination is the same as the destination argument to ssh. It may be specified as either [user@]hostname or a URI of the form ssh://[user@]hostname[:port].

If connecting requires interactive authentication based on STDIN (such as reading a password), the connection will fail. Consider setting up keypair-based authentication instead.

For more options, see SessionBuilder.

pub async fn check(&self) -> Result<(), Error>

Check the status of the underlying SSH connection.

Since this does not run a remote command, it has a better chance of extracting useful error messages than other commands.

pub fn command<'a, S: Into<Cow<'a, str>>>(&self, program: S) -> Command<'_>

Constructs a new Command for launching the program at path program on the remote host.

Before it is passed to the remote host, program is escaped so that special characters aren’t evaluated by the remote shell. If you do not want this behavior, use [raw_command].

The returned Command is a builder, with the following default configuration:

• No arguments to the program
• Empty stdin and dsicard stdout/stderr for spawn or status, but create output pipes for output

Builder methods are provided to change these defaults and otherwise configure the process.

If program is not an absolute path, the PATH will be searched in an OS-defined way on the host.

pub fn raw_command<S: AsRef<OsStr>>(&self, program: S) -> Command<'_>

Constructs a new Command for launching the program at path program on the remote host.

Unlike [command], this method does not shell-escape program, so it may be evaluated in unforeseen ways by the remote shell.

The returned Command is a builder, with the following default configuration:

• No arguments to the program
• Empty stdin and dsicard stdout/stderr for spawn or status, but create output pipes for output

Builder methods are provided to change these defaults and otherwise configure the process.

If program is not an absolute path, the PATH will be searched in an OS-defined way on the host.

pub fn shell<S: AsRef<str>>(&self, command: S) -> Command<'_>

Constructs a new Command that runs the provided shell command on the remote host.

The provided command is passed as a single, escaped argument to sh -c, and from that point forward the behavior is up to sh. Since this executes a shell command, keep in mind that you are subject to the shell’s rules around argument parsing, such as whitespace splitting, variable expansion, and other funkyness. I highly recommend you read this article if you observe strange things.

While the returned Command is a builder, like for [command], you should not add additional arguments to it, since the arguments are already passed within the shell command.

Non-standard Remote Shells

It is worth noting that there are really two shells at work here: the one that sshd launches for the session, and that launches are command; and the instance of sh that we launch in that session. This method tries hard to ensure that the provided command is passed exactly as-is to sh, but this is complicated by the presence of the “outer” shell. That outer shell may itself perform argument splitting, variable expansion, and the like, which might produce unintuitive results. For example, the outer shell may try to expand a variable that is only defined in the inner shell, and simply produce an empty string in the variable’s place by the time it gets to sh.

To counter this, this method assumes that the remote shell (the one launched by sshd) is POSIX compliant. This is more or less equivalent to “supports bash syntax” if you don’t look too closely. It uses shell-escape to escape command before sending it to the remote shell, with the expectation that the remote shell will only end up undoing that one “level” of escaping, thus producing the original command as an argument to sh. This works most of the time.

With sufficiently complex or weird commands, the escaping of shell-escape may not fully match the “un-escaping” of the remote shell. This will manifest as escape characters appearing in the sh command that you did not intend to be there. If this happens, try changing the remote shell if you can, or fall back to [command] and do the escaping manually instead.

pub fn sftp(&self) -> Sftp<'_>

Prepare to perform file operations on the remote host.

See Sftp for details on how to interact with the remote files.

pub async fn close(self) -> Result<(), Error>

Terminate the remote connection.

Trait Implementations

impl Debug for Session

fn fmt(&self, f: &mut Formatter<'_>) -> Result

Formats the value using the given formatter.

impl Drop for Session

fn drop(&mut self)

Executes the destructor for this type.