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Is steelbrain/node-ssh beginner-friendly?

We have not seen enough recent pull requests from outside contributors to steelbrain/node-ssh to say how often they are merged. No beginner-friendly issue is open right now; the list below has the other issues we hold for it.

Stars: 1k
Forks: 94
Open beginner issues: 0
Indexed issues: 55

Dominant language: TypeScript
License: MIT
Last GitHub push: Jun 29, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 20, 2026
Contributing guide: No contributing guide
Code of conduct: No code of conduct
Beginner labels: No beginner labels indexed
PR merge metrics: No merged PRs in 30d

How to contribute to steelbrain/node-ssh

There is no contributing guide, so start from the README and a few recently merged pull requests to see how changes are proposed.
Your contributions will be published under the project's MIT license.
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execCommand corrupts multi-byte UTF-8 output split across channel data chunks
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Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 78/100

steelbrain/node-ssh#487 · Opened Nov 14, 2026
ssh-certificate support
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Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

steelbrain/node-ssh#482 · 3 comments · Opened Mar 27, 2026
execCommand throws on large outputs
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Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

steelbrain/node-ssh#474 · 3 comments · Opened Jan 5, 2024
Is it possible to set transfer mode (binary or ascii) when calling `putFile`
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Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

steelbrain/node-ssh#473 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Nov 13, 2023
Question: How to interact with sub-shell created from the main shell
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 20/100

steelbrain/node-ssh#472 · Opened Nov 11, 2023
ssh.dispose method throwing error after migrating to node 18
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

steelbrain/node-ssh#471 · 1 comment · Opened Oct 12, 2023
Seek fault when downloading some files
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unconfirmed bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

steelbrain/node-ssh#470 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 7, 2023
Question: Any way to skip unmodified files from being uploaded to server?
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Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

steelbrain/node-ssh#466 · 2 comments · Opened Jul 20, 2023
can i set timeout for ssh command?
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question

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

steelbrain/node-ssh#465 · 2 comments · Opened May 13, 2023
Does node-ssh work with the latest OpenSSL version (I think it is 8.9) and Ubuntu 22?
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 20/100

steelbrain/node-ssh#462 · Opened Apr 12, 2023
NodeSSH Reconnect Issue: isConnected() Returns TRUE Even When Connection Unsuccessful
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Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

steelbrain/node-ssh#459 · Opened Mar 18, 2023
ssh: bind connection to special interface or IP address(config.localAddress?)
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Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

steelbrain/node-ssh#454 · Opened Jan 17, 2023
add custom parameter to ssh connection config
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external question

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

steelbrain/node-ssh#450 · 2 comments · Opened Dec 20, 2022
how set debug logs in node-ssh npm
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question

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 20/100

steelbrain/node-ssh#449 · 1 comment · Opened Nov 23, 2022
Command injection using execcommand
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Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

steelbrain/node-ssh#448 · Opened Nov 3, 2022
privateKey: Buffer.from('...')
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Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 45/100

steelbrain/node-ssh#446 · 4 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Sep 24, 2022
UnhandledPromiseRejectionWarning: Error: invalid command ping www.google.com
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Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

steelbrain/node-ssh#445 · Opened Sep 21, 2022
Module '"stream"' can only be default-imported using the 'esModuleInterop' flag
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Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 55/100

steelbrain/node-ssh#444 · Opened Sep 18, 2022
cwd not support ~
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enhancement question

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 35/100

steelbrain/node-ssh#443 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 14, 2022
Timeout handshake
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Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

steelbrain/node-ssh#442 · 1 reaction · Opened Sep 12, 2022
Support SFTP on Windows SSH server?
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

steelbrain/node-ssh#440 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 7, 2022
Can't import the named export 'PromiseQueue' from non EcmaScript module (only default export is available)
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Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

steelbrain/node-ssh#439 · Opened Aug 12, 2022
Error: All configured authentication methods failed
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

steelbrain/node-ssh#438 · 10 comments · 3 reactions · Opened Aug 5, 2022
how to hide command prompt window pop up in client system when executing command or doing file operation using node-ssh
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

steelbrain/node-ssh#437 · Opened Aug 2, 2022
Unable to SSH tunnel to hit private API
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external unconfirmed bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

steelbrain/node-ssh#430 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 15, 2022
When used on the renderer process of the Electron environment, the message "Class constructor NodeSSH cannot be invoked without 'new'" is displayed and instantiation fail.
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

steelbrain/node-ssh#427 · 4 comments · Opened Apr 29, 2022
Close Command Execution Not Working
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

steelbrain/node-ssh#422 · 2 comments · Opened Mar 1, 2022
Correctly handle unexpected errors
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Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

steelbrain/node-ssh#421 · 9 comments · 3 reactions · Opened Mar 1, 2022
Quick example of connecting with publicKey?
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Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 30/100

steelbrain/node-ssh#420 · 2 reactions · Opened Feb 4, 2022
requestShell with custom shell ?
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Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

steelbrain/node-ssh#416 · 1 reaction · Opened Jan 3, 2022
get real time cpu usage of remote server
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unconfirmed bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

steelbrain/node-ssh#415 · 2 comments · Opened Jan 2, 2022
NodeSSH putFile throws unexpected error
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Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

steelbrain/node-ssh#414 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Dec 24, 2021
Different results with node-ssh and my terminal ssh connection
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external question

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

steelbrain/node-ssh#410 · 11 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Dec 7, 2021
Example of usage with PTY
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question

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 38/100

steelbrain/node-ssh#405 · 2 comments · Opened Oct 19, 2021
putFile drops the file in ASCII format at the destination.
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Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

steelbrain/node-ssh#403 · 1 comment · Opened Oct 1, 2021
Undesired timeout right after streaming command ends
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

steelbrain/node-ssh#392 · Opened Jul 4, 2021
Module @types/ssh2 has no default export
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Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

steelbrain/node-ssh#389 · 1 comment · Opened Jun 17, 2021
how can i input the password use keyboard-interactive
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Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

steelbrain/node-ssh#385 · 1 comment · Opened Jun 7, 2021
@types/ssh2 are required when using TS `strictMode`
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Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 42/100

steelbrain/node-ssh#380 · 4 comments · Opened May 4, 2021
How do I run dd with sudo?
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Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

steelbrain/node-ssh#378 · 2 comments · Opened Apr 26, 2021
wget is not working properly
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Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

steelbrain/node-ssh#376 · Opened Apr 13, 2021
Update for use with ES6
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

steelbrain/node-ssh#375 · Opened Apr 9, 2021
Can't connect to SFTP server: Error: Cannot parse privateKey: decrypted is not defined
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

steelbrain/node-ssh#368 · 1 comment · Opened Mar 5, 2021
Client.exec returns code null when command code is 0
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

steelbrain/node-ssh#367 · 9 reactions · Opened Feb 26, 2021
"sudo su" not working
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Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

steelbrain/node-ssh#363 · 4 reactions · Opened Feb 16, 2021
Endless read
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Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

steelbrain/node-ssh#359 · Opened Jan 27, 2021
Add SFTP atomic upload functionality
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

steelbrain/node-ssh#349 · Opened Nov 2, 2020
UnhandledPromiseRejectionWarning
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unconfirmed bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

steelbrain/node-ssh#346 · 3 comments · Opened Oct 20, 2020
stderr always coming in stdout
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

steelbrain/node-ssh#339 · 3 comments · Opened Sep 30, 2020
Webpack compatibility issue since v9+
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unconfirmed bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

steelbrain/node-ssh#336 · 5 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Sep 24, 2020

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