The Authentication property allows you to select the type of
authentication that you want to use with the server. Most
commonly, you will choose authPassword authentication, which requires you to set the
Login and
Password
properties before the Connect method is called. Once
wodSSH connects to the server it will authenticate you
ONLY with username and password.
If you prefer to authenticate yourself using your
PrivateKey (in which case the server MUST have your public key),
you should set this property to authPubkey and you should set the Login and
PrivateKey
properties accordingly.
If you want to allow any of these types of authentication to take place,
set this property to authBoth.
In this case wodSSH will try to use both methods.
Different server implementations may require that either one or
both of the authentication methods are successful in order to login to the
server. Please note that in this case you must set all
three properties: Login, Password and PrivateKey.
To set PrivateKey, use the Keys object (included in the
setup package) this will allow you to generate (and store) the
required keys.
You can also use authSecurID
authentication. In this case, set your Login, and instead of your
password, provide the OTP (one time password) as provided by your token.
wodSSH will send authentication information to the server using
these properties. Obviously, in this case you cannot use Password
at the same time.
wodSSH also supports keyboard-interactive authentication. As a
fallback method wodSSH will attempt
to authenticate using this method if Password authentication fails.
authGSSAPI implements Kerberos protocol (http://web.mit.edu/Kerberos).
When this authentication is used, there is no need to provide Login
and Password at all - they are requested from the Kerberos authority
(assuming you have valid credentials) and authentication is made
without providing any login details in the code. wodSSH supports
both SSPI (Microsoft implementation) and KfW (MIT open source)
implementations - whichever is available on the local system.