package ssh import ( "encoding/base64" "fmt" "net" "time" "golang.org/x/crypto/ssh" "golang.org/x/crypto/ssh/knownhosts" ) // ScanHostKey collects the given host's preferred public key for the // Any errors (e.g. authentication failures) are ignored, except if // no key could be collected from the host. func ScanHostKey(host string, timeout time.Duration) ([]byte, error) { col := &HostKeyCollector{} config := &ssh.ClientConfig{ HostKeyCallback: col.StoreKey(), Timeout: timeout, } client, err := ssh.Dial("tcp", host, config) if err == nil { defer client.Close() } if len(col.knownKeys) > 0 { return col.knownKeys, nil } return col.knownKeys, err } // HostKeyCollector offers a StoreKey method which provides an // HostKeyCallBack to collect public keys from an SSH server. type HostKeyCollector struct { knownKeys []byte } // StoreKey stores the public key in bytes as returned by the host. // To collect multiple public key types from the host, multiple // SSH dials need with the ClientConfig HostKeyAlgorithms set to // the algorithm you want to collect. func (c *HostKeyCollector) StoreKey() ssh.HostKeyCallback { return func(hostname string, remote net.Addr, key ssh.PublicKey) error { c.knownKeys = append( c.knownKeys, fmt.Sprintf("%s %s %s\n", knownhosts.Normalize(hostname), key.Type(), base64.StdEncoding.EncodeToString(key.Marshal()))..., ) return nil } } // GetKnownKeys returns the collected public keys in bytes. func (c *HostKeyCollector) GetKnownKeys() []byte { return c.knownKeys }