Re: Controlling ssh from an external program

Oh yes, use perl and Net::SSH::Perl from CPAN.

It's a pain to build--> many, many requirements, but
it works very nice for this type of thing.  It's a
complete ssh implementation, you don't even need
openssh to install it I believe.  It can do things
like go interactive, pass username/password, return
good return codes, stderr, stdout, etc.

Contact me off-list if you need help building it. 
It's easier to build on linux than Solaris.  But I've
used it on both.

Jerry
QX19

--- Jeff Anderson <jander@hundredacrewood.org> wrote:

> Hi -
>
> I am working on a linux remote administration tool,
> and I would like to be 
> able to control ssh/scp via an external program. I
> know the standard answer 
> to this is to use expect, however this is NOT an
> option.
>
> The next standard answer is to use an empty
> passphrase or ssh-agent, but I
> cannot guarantee that the remote system will have a
> keypair, so I need to be
> able to fallback on password authentication if that
> fails. The controlling
> program needs to be able to feed the password to
> ssh/scp.
>
>
> Additionally, I can only use an unmodified version
> of openssh (i.e. whatever
> version is available on the system that the admin
> tool is run from).
>
> Any ideas?????
==========================================================
> Jeff Anderson


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