Question

Is it somehow possible to use a user’s SSH client configuration when dealing with SSH2 streams in PHP? On most systems this is stored in ~/.ssh/config.

In my case I have several aliases configured in my SSH config. But, when I try to use those aliases in my PHP code they do not work.

Example ~/.ssh/config

Host foo
    HostName my.server
    Port 22
    User sander
    IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa

Example PHP code that fails, but that I’d like to get working:

<?php
$text = file_get_contents('ssh2.sftp://foo/bar.txt');

Answer 1

If you check the source codes for the ssh2 wrapper at http://pecl.php.net/package/ssh2 it seems they don not support aliases at all.

Post into their mailing list, the alias support could be probably easily added.