/api/login/public-key/:token


Send the public key to the server during authentication

Method

POST

Parameters

  • publicKey — base64 encoded string public key of the ssh key.  The format of the string is as follows

4 bytes – unsigned int: length X of string to come
X bytes – string: this will be ‘ssh-rsa’ (7 chars)
4 bytes – unsigned int: length Y of byte array
Y bytes – bigint of ‘e’
4 bytes – unsigned int: length Z of byte array
Z bytes – bigint of ‘n’

Result

Stage: sign

User is in the middle of authentication.
Sign the data with the private key and send to the server

  • stage — ‘sign’
  • token — connection token which is required during authentication
  • signData — base64 encoded data to sign with the public key

Stage: public-key

User is in the middle of authentication.
Send the public key to the server

  • stage — ‘public-key’
  • token — connection token which is required during authentication

Stage: keyboard-interactive

User is in the middle of authentication.
The prompts parameter contains an array of prompts that the user should make responses to.  Send the array of responses to /api/login/keyboard-interactive/:token

  • stage — ‘keyboard-interactive’
  • token — connection token which is required during authentication
  • prompt — text description of the prompt

Stage: password

Password based authentication

JSON object with the following members

  • stage — ‘password’
  • token — connection token which is required during authentication

Stage: success

User has successfully logged in and can now issue api commands

JSON object with the following members

  • stage — ‘success’
  • token — connection token which is required in api calls
  • host —  hostname where the user is connected