diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index bff59f1..b86d665 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,4 +1,2 @@
 build
-libssh
-libssh-installed
 .*.swp
diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0ea1fcd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+[submodule "libssh"]
+	path = libssh
+	url = https://git.libssh.org/projects/libssh.git
diff --git a/libssh b/libssh
new file mode 160000
index 0000000..e832281
--- /dev/null
+++ b/libssh
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Subproject commit e8322817a9e5aaef0698d779ddd467a209a85d85