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Authenticate over SSH using a plain password
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ssh2_auth_password

(PECL ssh2 >= 0.9.0)

ssh2_auth_passwordAuthenticate over SSH using a plain password

Description

bool ssh2_auth_password ( resource $session , string $username , string $password )

Authenticate over SSH using a plain password. Since version 0.12 this function also supports keyboard_interactive method.

Parameters

session

An SSH connection link identifier, obtained from a call to ssh2_connect().

username

Remote user name.

password

Password for username

Return Values

Returns TRUE on success or FALSE on failure.

Examples

Example #1 Authenticating with a password

<?php
$connection 
ssh2_connect('shell.example.com'22);

if (
ssh2_auth_password($connection'username''secret')) {
  echo 
"Authentication Successful!\n";
} else {
  die(
'Authentication Failed...');
}
?>


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