Hello Jerry,
I have almost the same problem
I need to launch a SSH agent and SSH add and I would like to give the
passphrase as input (without human interaction) to the SSH-add.
Do you think NetSSH can help me for this.
PS: Unfortunately, for this I am running on a Windows.
Thank you for your help
Patrice
Jerry <juanino@yahoo.com> on 21/10/2004 22:10:35
To: jander@hundredacrewood.org, secureshell@securityfocus.com
cc:
Subject: 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?????
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Jeff Anderson
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