Security with Go

Executing a command over SSH

Now that we have established multiple ways of authenticating and connecting to a remote SSH server, we need to put ssh.Client to work. So far we have only been printing out the client version. The first goal is to execute a single command and view the output.

Once ssh.Client is created, you can begin creating sessions. A client supports multiple sessions at once. A session has its own standard input, output, and error. They are standard reader and writer interfaces.

To execute a command there are a few options: Run(), Start(), Output(), and CombinedOutput(). They are all very similar, but behave a little differently:

• session.Output(cmd): The Output() function will execute the command, and return session.Stdout ...