[wplug] ssh - reading password from stdin?

[Lance Tost]

Check out Net::Telnet.  

# perldoc Net::Telnet

If you don't have it installed,

# perl -MCPAN -e 'install Net::Telnet' will install it.

NAME   
       Net::Telnet - interact with TELNET port or other TCP ports

SYNOPSIS
       "use Net::Telnet ();"
       
       see METHODS section below

DESCRIPTION
       Net::Telnet allows you to make client connections to a TCP port and 
do
       network I/O, especially to a port using the TELNET protocol.  
Simple
       I/O methods such as print, get, and getline are provided.  More 
sophis-
       ticated interactive features are provided because connecting to a 
TEL-
       NET port ultimately means communicating with a program designed for
       human interaction.  These interactive features include the ability 
to
       specify a time-out and to wait for patterns to appear in the input
       stream, such as the prompt from a shell.

           use Net::Telnet ();
           $t = new Net::Telnet (Timeout => 10,
                                 Prompt => '/bash\$ $/');
           $t->open("sparky");
           $t->login($username, $passwd);
           @lines = $t->cmd("who");
           print @lines;


On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, Timothy Wong wrote:

> Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 01:09:42 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Timothy Wong <timothyw at andrew.cmu.edu>
> Reply-To: wplug at wplug.org
> To: wplug at wplug.org
> Subject: [wplug] ssh - reading password from stdin?
> 
> Hi everybody,
> 
> Does anybody know if there is a way to force ssh (or telnet) to read the
> user's password from STDIN?  I would like to do this so that I can open an
> instance of ssh from perl a la "open (SSH, "| ssh myhost.com -l
> username")" and then using perl's print to control the ssh session.
> 
> Another issue that presents itself is how to read from this instance of
> SSH...I can write to it, but I can't specify two pipes in the open
> statement...can I?
> 
>  Any help would be appreciated!
> 
> Thanks!!
> 
> -Tim
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