Russh is a low-level SSH2 library written in Rust and built on Tokio. It provides asynchronous building blocks for developers who need to embed SSH client or server functionality into their own software, and the repository includes example implementations for simple clients, interactive PTY sessions, servers, and SFTP workflows.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Provides low-level asynchronous SSH2 client and server implementations for Rust applications.
- Supports local and remote port forwarding, along with local and remote UNIX socket forwarding.
- Offers multiple authentication methods including password, public key, keyboard-interactive, none, and OpenSSH certificates.
- Includes broad protocol support for ciphers, key exchanges, MACs, and host key algorithms.
- Adds OpenSSH-oriented capabilities such as keepalive request handling, agent forwarding channels, and the server-sig-algs extension.
- Supports PPK key format and Pageant integration.
- Provides AsyncRead and AsyncWrite compatible channels for integration with Tokio-based code.
Website: github.com/Eugeny/russh
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Developer: Eugeny
License: Apache License 2.0
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