wolfssh

wolfSSL's Embeddable SSH Server

dependencies

wolfSSH is dependent on wolfCrypt. The simplest configuration of wolfSSL required for wolfSSH is the default build.

$ cd wolfssl
$ ./configure [OPTIONS] --enable-ssh
$ make check
$ sudo make install

To use the key generation function in wolfSSH, wolfSSL will need to be configured with keygen: --enable-keygen.

If the bulk of wolfSSL code isn't desired, wolfSSL can be configured with the crypto only option: --enable-cryptonly.

building

From the source directory run:

$ ./autogen.sh
$ ./configure
$ make
$ make check

The autogen.sh script only has to be run the first time after cloning the repository. If you have already run it or are using code from a source archive, you should skip it.

For building under Windows with Visual Studio, see the file "ide/winvs/README.md".

NOTE: On resource constrained devices the DEFAULT_WINDOW_SZ may need to be set to a lower size. It can also be increased in desktop use cases to help with large file transfers. By default channels are set to handle 16,384 bytes of data being sent and received. An example of setting a window size for new channels would be as follows "./configure CPPFLAGS=-DDEFAULT_WINDOW_SZ=16384"

examples

The directory examples contains an echoserver that any client should be able to connect to. From the terminal run:

$ ./examples/echoserver/echoserver

From another terminal run:

$ ssh_client localhost -p 22222

The server will send a canned banner to the client:

wolfSSH Example Echo Server

Characters typed into the client will be echoed to the screen by the server. If the characters are echoed twice, the client has local echo enabled. The echo server isn't being a proper terminal so the CR/LF translation will not work as expected.

testing notes

After cloning the repository, be sure to make the testing private keys read- only for the user, otherwise ssh_client will tell you to do it.

$ chmod 0600 ./keys/gretel-key-rsa.pem ./keys/hansel-key-rsa.pem \
             ./keys/gretel-key-ecc.pem ./keys/hansel-key-ecc.pem

Authentication against the example echoserver can be done with a password or public key. To use a password the command line:

$ ssh_client -p 22222 [email protected]

Where the USER and password pairs are:

jill:upthehill
jack:fetchapail

To use public key authentication use the command line:

$ ssh_client -i ./keys/USER-key-TYPE.pem -p 22222 [email protected]

Where the USER can be gretel or hansel, and TYPE is rsa or ecc.

Keep in mind, the echoserver has several fake accounts in its wsUserAuth callback function. (jack, jill, hansel, and gretel) When the shell support is enabled, those fake accounts will not work. They don't exist in the system's passwd file. The users will authenticate, but the server will err out because they don't exist in the system. You can add your own username to the password or public key list in the echoserver. That account will be logged into a shell started by the echoserver with the privileges of the user running echoserver.

scp support

wolfSSH includes server-side support for scp, which includes support for both copying files 'to' the server, and copying files 'from' the server. Both single file and recursive directory copy are supported with the default send and receive callbacks.

To compile wolfSSH with scp support, use the --enable-scp build option or define WOLFSSL_SCP:

$ ./configure --enable-scp
$ make

For full API usage and implementation details, please see the wolfSSH User Manual.

The wolfSSL example server has been set up to accept a single scp request, and is compiled by default when compiling the wolfSSH library. To start the example server, run:

$ ./examples/server/server

Standard scp commands can be used on the client side. The following are a few examples, where scp represents the ssh client you are using.

To copy a single file TO the server, using the default example user "jill":

$ scp -P 22222 <local_file> [email protected]:<remote_path>

To copy the same single file TO the server, but with timestamp and in verbose mode:

$ scp -v -p -P 22222 <local_file> [email protected]:<remote_path>

To recursively copy a directory TO the server:

$ scp -P 22222 -r <local_dir> [email protected]:<remote_dir>

To copy a single file FROM the server to the local client:

$ scp -P 22222 [email protected]:<remote_file> <local_path>

To recursively copy a directory FROM the server to the local client:

$ scp -P 22222 -r [email protected]:<remote_dir> <local_path>

port forwarding support

wolfSSH provides client side support for port forwarding. This allows the user to set up an encrypted tunnel to another server, where the SSH client listens on a socket and forwards connections on that socket to another socket on the server.

To compile wolfSSH with port forwarding support, use the --enable-fwd build option or define WOLFSSH_FWD:

$ ./configure --enable-fwd
$ make

For full API usage and implementation details, please see the wolfSSH User Manual.

The portfwd example tool will create a "direct-tcpip" style channel. These directions assume you have OpenSSH's server running in the background with port forwarding enabled. This example forwards the port for the wolfSSL client to the server as the application. It assumes that all programs are run on the same machine in different terminals.

src/wolfssl$ ./examples/server/server
src/wolfssh$ ./examples/portfwd/portfwd -p 22 -u <username> \
             -f 12345 -t 11111
src/wolfssl$ ./examples/client/client -p 12345

By default, the wolfSSL server listens on port 11111. The client is set to try to connect to port 12345. The portfwd logs in as user "username", opens a listener on port 12345 and connects to the server on port 11111. Packets are routed back and forth between the client and server. "Hello, wolfSSL!"

The source for portfwd provides an example on how to set up and use the port forwarding support in wolfSSH.

sftp support

wolfSSH provides server and client side support for SFTP version 3. This allows the user to set up an encrypted connection for managing file systems.

To compile wolfSSH with SFTP support, use the --enable-sftp build option or define WOLFSSH_SFTP:

$ ./configure --enable-sftp
$ make

For full API usage and implementation details, please see the wolfSSH User Manual.

The SFTP client created is located in the directory examples/sftpclient/ and the server is ran using the same echoserver as with wolfSSH.

src/wolfssh$ ./examples/sftpclient/wolfsftp

A full list of supported commands can be seen with typeing "help" after a connection.

wolfSSH sftp> help

Commands :
    cd  <string>                      change directory
    chmod <mode> <path>               change mode
    get <remote file> <local file>    pulls file(s) from server
    ls                                list current directory
    mkdir <dir name>                  creates new directory on server
    put <local file> <remote file>    push file(s) to server
    pwd                               list current path
    quit                              exit
    rename <old> <new>                renames remote file
    reget <remote file> <local file>  resume pulling file
    reput <remote file> <local file>  resume pushing file
    <crtl + c>                        interrupt get/put cmd

An example of connecting to another system would be

src/wolfssh$ ./examples/sftpclient/wolfsftp -p 22 -u user -h 192.168.1.111

shell support in example echoserver

wolfSSH's example echoserver can now fork a shell for the user trying to log in. This currently has only been tested on Linux and macOS. The file echoserver.c must be modified to have the user's credentials in the user authentication callback, or the user authentication callback needs to be changed to verify the provided password.

To compile wolfSSH with shell support, use the --enable-shell build option or define WOLFSSH_SHELL:

$ ./configure --enable-shell
$ make

By default, the echoserver will try to start a shell. To use the echo testing behavior, give the echoserver the command line option -f.

$ ./examples/echoserver/echoserver -f