Re: [PLUG] Perl question

[Chris Hedemark <chris@yonderway.com>]

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On Tuesday, February 4, 2003, at 06:20 PM, Beldon Dominello wrote:

> I'm working on a Perl program which will use an external utility (scp) 
> to copy
> a file from another server to the one it's on.  The problem is the 
> utility
> asks for a password, and the Perl script must respond to it.  I know 
> there's
> an "Expect" PM I can use, but it's not on the machine currently and 
> I'd like
> to avoid the fight I'll get over adding more Perl modules (they 
> already hate
> that I'm using Perl, despite the fact that it's already on the 
> machine).

Don't bother using passwords at all.  Use keys.  OpenSSH has all the 
tools to do it, and there is a perl module to work with scp directly 
(Net::SCP) at http://search.cpan.org/author/IVAN/Net-SCP-0.06/SCP.pm

Chris Hedemark
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