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Easy SSH servers in Golang

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Easy SSH servers in Golang

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Observed mentions: 2017-12-02 16:51:30 UTC to 2026-03-19 06:19:44 UTC.

012342017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20172018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20212022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 0 submissions, 4 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 comments2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments. Incomplete calendar period.2026*

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20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC404
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC211
2026 (partial)2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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tkw01536·Mar 19, 2026
I ended up doing something like this for a separate use case (had to host a bunch of Drupal instances, and for some reason end users needed shell access). For the proxy I did not rely on a “proper” ssh daemon (like openssh), but wrote my own using a go library called gliderlabs/ssh. That in particular allowed me to implement only a tcp forwarding callback [1] , and not provide any shell access on a protocol level. Also made deployment nicer - no need for a full VM, just a container was sufficient. It is also worth nothing that the -j can be moved into .ssh/config using the ProxyJump option. It does mean end users need a config file - but it does allow typing just a plain ssh command. [1] https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/gliderlabs/ssh#ForwardedTCPHan...
In SSH has no Host header
Imustaskforhelp·Dec 28, 2025
Fwsgonzo, what a legend man!! I am not kidding but before seeing this post, I had commented about my experiences in the libriscv discord server (I am the person who had created the AUR arch repository for simplekvm but had to pull them down) For reference: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46413053#46415223 Call this luck or whatever, but I really appreciate libriscv and I will definitely try to be more active, A ~77% of native and a possible ~90% potentially in a fairly permissive license allows the doors to be opened up for really fast sandboxes. I recently built a (although private repo) where you can ssh into something and it would directly run wasm and it turns out that you can convert golang directly to wasm (by bootstrapping the golang from scratch using gotip and the help of one stackoverflow post :) ) The reason I didn't try
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to disclose it was that there was a minor issue in simple logic which kept me bugging me off and I had decided to use AI to basically glue me ssh https://github.com/gliderlabs/ssh with wasm but I wasn't so sure about publishing it after the recent rob-pike's incident and I found it a bit of bad taste to use AI after that and what should be my disclosure policy be but I hope its an acceptable use (of prototyping) considered by the general programming community and let me know if ssh-wasm or similar interests libriscv as I had evaluated libriscv and even installed simplekvm once again after an year or so but it had some issues running a rather simple main.go file and I think that LoongArch can be another good usecase for something like this. I actually built it and am thinking of creating a simple place where people can upload simple applications (in wasm or any other format) and then get an ssh link, they can ssh into or even an xterm instance or just, quick efficient sandboxing unlocks a lot of opportunities not previously thought of and your project is another step towards it so kudos for building it!
In Show HN: LoongArch Userspace Emulator
perbu·Oct 9, 2024
Well done. The ease of use and high quality of the Go SSH libraries (golang.org/x/crypto/ssh) is a killer feature of Go, imho. Also, there is a high level abstraction, github.com/gliderlabs/ssh, which makes it completely trivial to embed an ssh server into an application, giving you a nice way to inspect counters and flip feature flags and tuneables.
In Show HN: I made an SSH tunnel manager to learn Go
steventhedev·Dec 2, 2017
If golang is your thing, take a look at this[0] or that[1]. You can probably find similar ones with some quick research. The neat part is that you can easily pull down someone's github keys and automatically authenticate them against that identity. You can follow up with an email/password registration as a backup identity provider, if you really want to push the envelope (and save the public key for future automatic authentication). Of course, if you're just looking to hack something together quickly, you can simply force a specific command to be run. [0]: https://github.com/shazow/ssh-chat [1]: https://github.com/gliderlabs/ssh
In Sshtalk: An SSH-based chat made in assembler

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