Comments on: Systems Administration with Perl and SSH http://serveradmins.net/systems-administration-with-perl-and-ssh/ Stuff for Server Admins... Thu, 15 Jul 2010 01:31:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: chrism http://serveradmins.net/systems-administration-with-perl-and-ssh/comment-page-1/#comment-825 chrism Tue, 06 Apr 2010 22:00:39 +0000 http://serveradmins.net/?p=45#comment-825 Ryan, Thanks for taking the time to comment. :) You know that's not a bad idea at all. The application that I was working on at the office does have a need for keys, so it shouldnt' be too hard to include support there. I know that Net::SSH::Perl has the ability to handle keys via <a href="http://search.cpan.org/~turnstep/Net-SSH-Perl-1.34/lib/Net/SSH/Perl/Key.pm" rel="nofollow"> , but I haven't done that myself yet. I'll put that on my to-do list though. :) As to connecting via different users, you can always use the SSH object and populate the user field with whatever user you're wanting the script to login as. i.e., <code>my $ssh = Net::SSH::Perl->new( $server, port => 22, use_pty => 1 ); $ssh->login( $user, $password );</code> So whatever you assign $user to will be what the script uses to auth if that makes sense.</a> Ryan,

Thanks for taking the time to comment. :)

You know that’s not a bad idea at all. The application that I was working on at the office does have a need for keys, so it shouldnt’ be too hard to include support there. I know that Net::SSH::Perl has the ability to handle keys via , but I haven’t done that myself yet. I’ll put that on my to-do list though. :)

As to connecting via different users, you can always use the SSH object and populate the user field with whatever user you’re wanting the script to login as. i.e.,
my $ssh = Net::SSH::Perl->new( $server, port => 22, use_pty => 1 );
$ssh->login( $user, $password );

So whatever you assign $user to will be what the script uses to auth if that makes sense.

]]> By: Ryan http://serveradmins.net/systems-administration-with-perl-and-ssh/comment-page-1/#comment-824 Ryan Sat, 03 Apr 2010 15:52:14 +0000 http://serveradmins.net/?p=45#comment-824 Great post. How about a slight twist...using keys to ssh as a different user? For example i'm to do this from a cgi script on a web site but I don't want to ssh to the remote host as apache/nobody? Thanks! Great post. How about a slight twist…using keys to ssh as a different user? For example i’m to do this from a cgi script on a web site but I don’t want to ssh to the remote host as apache/nobody?

Thanks!

]]> By: chrism http://serveradmins.net/systems-administration-with-perl-and-ssh/comment-page-1/#comment-752 chrism Sat, 13 Feb 2010 00:32:13 +0000 http://serveradmins.net/?p=45#comment-752 David, It truly depends on the circumstances and the situations. For example, the situation I'm writing for now is using Net::SSH::Perl to login to a customer's machine and perform some basic tests and verifications on the environment. We don't have control over the clients machine, so they'll typically have us use a login/password combination. Every now and then we'll be given a private key to use which is usable as well. If you'd want, I should be able to whip up some examples that use a key in place of the login/password combo, just let me know. =) David,

It truly depends on the circumstances and the situations. For example, the situation I’m writing for now is using Net::SSH::Perl to login to a customer’s machine and perform some basic tests and verifications on the environment. We don’t have control over the clients machine, so they’ll typically have us use a login/password combination. Every now and then we’ll be given a private key to use which is usable as well. If you’d want, I should be able to whip up some examples that use a key in place of the login/password combo, just let me know. =)

]]> By: David http://serveradmins.net/systems-administration-with-perl-and-ssh/comment-page-1/#comment-751 David Fri, 12 Feb 2010 12:02:20 +0000 http://serveradmins.net/?p=45#comment-751 So, you would consider storing passwords in perl scripts and not use keys? Confused. So, you would consider storing passwords in perl scripts and not use keys? Confused.

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