GitHub Action SSH

Simple GitHub Action to run a command on a remote server using SSH. This is working with the latest GitHub Actions.

✨ Example Usage

Example using OpenSSH encrypted private key

- name: ls -a via ssh
  uses: joaohcrangel/github-action-ssh@release
  with:
    command: ls -a
    host: ${{ secrets.HOST }}
    username: joaohcrangel
    passphrase: ${{ secrets.PASSPHRASE }}
    privateKey: ${{ secrets.PRIVATE_KEY}}

🔐 Set your secrets here: https://github.com/USERNAME/REPO/settings/secrets.

Check out the workflow example for a minimalistic yaml workflow in GitHub Actions.

Result

Options

• host - string - Hostname or IP address of the server. Default: 'localhost'

• port - integer - Port number of the server. Default: 22

• username - string - Username for authentication. Default: (none)

• password - string - Password for password-based user authentication. Default: (none)

• privateKey - mixed - Buffer or string that contains a private key for either key-based or hostbased user authentication (OpenSSH format). Default: (none)

• passphrase - string - For an encrypted private key, this is the passphrase used to decrypt it. Default: (none)

• tryKeyboard - boolean - Try keyboard-interactive user authentication if primary user authentication method fails. Default: false

Development

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This thing is built using Typescript and ssh2 (via node-ssh). 🚀