Re: Controlling ssh from an external program

Patrice.Gonthier_at_alcatel.fr
Date: 10/22/04

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    To: Jerry <juanino@yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 10:49:19 +0200

    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?????
    >
    >
    >
    ==========================================================
    > Jeff Anderson
    >
    >

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