SSH Penetration Testing

Category: Engineering · Sub-category: testing

type:audit

This skill should be used when the user asks to "pentest SSH services", "enumerate SSH configurations", "brute force SSH credentials", "exploit SSH vulnerabilities", "perform SSH tunneling", or "audit SSH security". It provides comprehensive SSH penetration testing methodologies and techniques.

What this skill does

SSH Penetration Testing is a community-contributed Claude Code skill in the testing sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/ssh-penetration-testing/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.

Who uses this skill

The SSH Penetration Testing skill is built for software engineers, backend developers, full-stack teams, and technical leads building and maintaining production systems. It is part of the open ClaudSkills registry, a community-curated catalog of 56,000+ capabilities you can install for Claude Code — the Claude CLI agent.

How to install

Free

Manual install (2 steps)

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/ssh-penetration-testing
curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/ssh-penetration-testing/SKILL.md \
  -o ~/.claude/skills/ssh-penetration-testing/SKILL.md

Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/ssh-penetration-testing/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.

Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/ssh-penetration-testing/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\ssh-penetration-testing\SKILL.md on Windows. See the full install guide for step-by-step instructions.

Pro

One-click install via the desktop app

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