[ANN] LibSSH.jl: a Julia wrapper for libssh

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Heyo heyo :wave:

So I’ve been working on writing a wrapper for the libssh library recently, and I think it’s ready-ish enough for others to use (if they dare :octopus:).

Source: GitHub - JuliaWeb/LibSSH.jl: A Julia wrapper for libssh.
Docs: https://juliaweb.github.io/LibSSH.jl

TL;DR: this lets you do SSH things programmatically. Here’s a peek of the API:

import LibSSH as ssh

session = ssh.Session("foo.com")
ssh.userauth_password(session, "password")
close(session)

And a bigger example here: Examples · LibSSH

Libssh (the C library) can work in both a blocking and non-blocking mode. LibSSH.jl sets everything to use the non-blocking mode by default and it’s fully compatible with Julia’s event loop, so you can safely call all of the high-level functions without needing to worry about them blocking. The low-level functions are pure wrappers to the C functions and may block or otherwise do strange things (check the excellent libssh docs before using them).

Disclaimer: the package is still young and there may be bugs and missing functionality :upside_down_face: (well ok, there’s definitely lots of missing functionality)
Having said that, the implementation of the SSH protocol itself is entirely delegated to libssh, which is a fairly trusted library, so I’m mildly confident that there’s at least no severe security issues.

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