I’m currently in the process of learning ssh via the brute-force/ just keep hacking until I understand it approach. After some trial and error I’ve been able to successfully send a "pty-req" followed by a "shell" request, I can get the login preamble, send commands and receive stdout but I’m not exactly sure how to tell the SSH service I want to recieve stderr and status messages. Reading through other SSH implementations ( paramiko, Net::SSH ) hasn’t been much of a guide at the moment.
That said, looking at one of the RFC’s for SSH, I believe that perhaps one of the listed requests might be what I am looking for: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc4250#section-4.9.3
#!/usr/bin/env python
from twisted.conch.ssh import transport
from twisted.conch.ssh import userauth
from twisted.conch.ssh import connection
from twisted.conch.ssh import common
from twisted.conch.ssh.common import NS
from twisted.conch.ssh import keys
from twisted.conch.ssh import channel
from twisted.conch.ssh import session
from twisted.internet import defer
from twisted.internet import defer, protocol, reactor
from twisted.python import log
import struct, sys, getpass, os
log.startLogging(sys.stdout)
USER = 'dward'
HOST = '192.168.0.19' # pristine.local
PASSWD = "password"
PRIVATE_KEY = "~/id_rsa"
class SimpleTransport(transport.SSHClientTransport):
def verifyHostKey(self, hostKey, fingerprint):
print 'host key fingerprint: %s' % fingerprint
return defer.succeed(1)
def connectionSecure(self):
self.requestService(
SimpleUserAuth(USER,
SimpleConnection()))
class SimpleUserAuth(userauth.SSHUserAuthClient):
def getPassword(self):
return defer.succeed(PASSWD)
def getGenericAnswers(self, name, instruction, questions):
print name
print instruction
answers = []
for prompt, echo in questions:
if echo:
answer = raw_input(prompt)
else:
answer = getpass.getpass(prompt)
answers.append(answer)
return defer.succeed(answers)
def getPublicKey(self):
path = os.path.expanduser(PRIVATE_KEY)
# this works with rsa too
# just change the name here and in getPrivateKey
if not os.path.exists(path) or self.lastPublicKey:
# the file doesn't exist, or we've tried a public key
return
return keys.Key.fromFile(filename=path+'.pub').blob()
def getPrivateKey(self):
path = os.path.expanduser(PRIVATE_KEY)
return defer.succeed(keys.Key.fromFile(path).keyObject)
class SimpleConnection(connection.SSHConnection):
def serviceStarted(self):
self.openChannel(SmartChannel(2**16, 2**15, self))
class SmartChannel(channel.SSHChannel):
name = "session"
def getResponse(self, timeout = 10):
self.onData = defer.Deferred()
self.timeout = reactor.callLater( timeout, self.onData.errback, Exception("Timeout") )
return self.onData
def openFailed(self, reason):
print "Failed", reason
@defer.inlineCallbacks
def channelOpen(self, ignoredData):
self.data = ''
self.oldData = ''
self.onData = None
self.timeout = None
term = os.environ.get('TERM', 'xterm')
#winsz = fcntl.ioctl(fd, tty.TIOCGWINSZ, '12345678')
winSize = (25,80,0,0) #struct.unpack('4H', winsz)
ptyReqData = session.packRequest_pty_req(term, winSize, '')
try:
result = yield self.conn.sendRequest(self, 'pty-req', ptyReqData, wantReply = 1 )
except Exception as e:
print "Failed with ", e
try:
result = yield self.conn.sendRequest(self, "shell", '', wantReply = 1)
except Exception as e:
print "Failed shell with ", e
#fetch preample
data = yield self.getResponse()
"""
Welcome to Ubuntu 11.04 (GNU/Linux 2.6.38-8-server x86_64)
* Documentation: http://www.ubuntu.com/server/doc
System information as of Sat Oct 29 13:09:50 MDT 2011
System load: 0.0 Processes: 111
Usage of /: 48.0% of 6.62GB Users logged in: 1
Memory usage: 39% IP address for eth1: 192.168.0.19
Swap usage: 3%
Graph this data and manage this system at https://landscape.canonical.com/
New release 'oneiric' available.
Run 'do-release-upgrade' to upgrade to it.
Last login: Sat Oct 29 01:23:16 2011 from 192.168.0.17
"""
print data
while data != "" and data.strip().endswith("~$") == False:
try:
data = yield self.getResponse()
print repr(data)
"""
\x1B]0;dward@pristine: ~\x07dward@pristine:~$
"""
except Exception as e:
print e
break
self.write("false\n")
#fetch response
try:
data = yield self.getResponse()
except Exception as e:
print "Failed to catch response?", e
else:
print data
"""
false
\x1B]0;dward@pristine: ~\x07dward@pristine:~$
"""
self.write("true\n")
#fetch response
try:
data = yield self.getResponse()
except Exception as e:
print "Failed to catch response?", e
else:
print data
"""
true
\x1B]0;dward@pristine: ~\x07dward@pristine:~$
"""
self.write("echo Hello World\n\x00")
try:
data = yield self.getResponse()
except Exception as e:
print "Failed to catch response?", e
else:
print data
"""
echo Hello World
Hello World
\x1B]0;dward@pristine: ~\x07dward@pristine:~$
"""
#Close up shop
self.loseConnection()
dbgp = 1
def request_exit_status(self, data):
status = struct.unpack('>L', data)[0]
print 'status was: %s' % status
def dataReceived(self, data):
self.data += data
if self.onData is not None:
if self.timeout and self.timeout.active():
self.timeout.cancel()
if self.onData.called == False:
self.onData.callback(data)
def extReceived(self, dataType, data):
dbgp = 1
print "Extended Data recieved! dataType = %s , data = %s " % ( dataType, data, )
self.extendData = data
def closed(self):
print 'got data : %s' % self.data.replace("\\r\\n","\r\n")
self.loseConnection()
reactor.stop()
protocol.ClientCreator(reactor, SimpleTransport).connectTCP(HOST, 22)
reactor.run()
Additionally I tried adding in an explicit bad command to the remote shell:
self.write("ls -alF badPathHere\n\x00")
try:
data = yield self.getResponse()
except Exception as e:
print "Failed to catch response?", e
else:
print data
"""
ls -alF badPathHere
ls: cannot access badPathHere: No such file or directory
\x1B]0;dward@pristine: ~\x07dward@pristine:~$
"""
And it looks like stderr is being mixed into stderr
Digging through the source code for OpenSSH, channel session logic is handled in session.c at line
2227 function -> session_input_channel_req which if given a pty-req then a “shell” request leads to do_exec_pty which ultimately leads to the call to session_set_fds(s, ptyfd, fdout, -1, 1, 1). The forth argument would normally be a file descriptor responsible for handling stderr but since none is supplied then there won’t be any extended data for stderr.
Ultimately, even if I modified openssh to provide a stderr FD, the problem resides with the shell. Complete guess work at this point but I believe that similar to logging into a ssh service via a terminal like xterm or putty, that stderr and stdout are sent together unless explicitly redirected via something like “2> someFile” which is beyond the scope of a SSH service provider.