package Net::SSH; use strict; use vars qw($VERSION @ISA @EXPORT_OK $ssh $DEBUG); use Exporter; use IO::File; use IPC::Open2; use IPC::Open3; @ISA = qw(Exporter); @EXPORT_OK = qw( ssh issh ssh_cmd sshopen2 sshopen3 ); $VERSION = '0.04'; $DEBUG = 0; $ssh = "ssh"; =head1 NAME Net::SSH - Perl extension for secure shell =head1 SYNOPSIS use Net::SSH qw(ssh issh sshopen2 sshopen3); ssh('user@hostname', $command); issh('user@hostname', $command); ssh_cmd('user@hostname', $command); sshopen2('user@hostname', $reader, $writer, $command); sshopen3('user@hostname', $writer, $reader, $error, $command); =head1 DESCRIPTION Simple wrappers around ssh commands. =head1 SUBROUTINES =over 4 =item ssh [USER@]HOST, COMMAND [, ARGS ... ] Calls ssh in batch mode. =cut sub ssh { my($host, @command) = @_; my @cmd = ($ssh, '-o', 'BatchMode=yes', $host, @command); warn "[Net::SSH::ssh] executing ". join(' ', @cmd). "\n" if $DEBUG; system(@cmd); } =item issh [USER@]HOST, COMMAND [, ARGS ... ] Prints the ssh command to be executed, waits for the user to confirm, and (optionally) executes the command. =cut sub issh { my($host, @command) = @_; my @cmd = ($ssh, $host, @command); print join(' ', @cmd), "\n"; if ( &_yesno ) { system(@cmd); } } =item ssh_cmd [USER@]HOST, COMMAND [, ARGS ... ] Calls ssh in batch mode. Dies if data occurs on the error stream. Warns of data on the output stream. =cut sub ssh_cmd { my($host, @command) = @_; my $reader = IO::File->new(); my $writer = IO::File->new(); my $error = IO::File->new(); sshopen3( $host, $reader, $writer, $error, @command ) or die $!; local $/ = undef; my $output_stream = <$writer>; my $error_stream = <$error>; if ( length $error_stream ) { die "[Net:SSH::ssh_cmd] STDERR $error_stream"; } if ( length $output_stream ) { warn "[Net::SSH::ssh_cmd] STDOUT $output_stream"; } } =item sshopen2 [USER@]HOST, READER, WRITER, COMMAND [, ARGS ... ] Connects the supplied filehandles to the ssh process (in batch mode). =cut sub sshopen2 { my($host, $reader, $writer, @command) = @_; open2($reader, $writer, $ssh, '-o', 'BatchMode=yes', $host, @command); } =item sshopen3 HOST, WRITER, READER, ERROR, COMMAND [, ARGS ... ] Connects the supplied filehandles to the ssh process (in batch mode). =cut sub sshopen3 { my($host, $writer, $reader, $error, @command) = @_; open3($writer, $reader, $error, $ssh, '-o', 'BatchMode=yes', $host, @command); } sub _yesno { print "Proceed [y/N]:"; my $x = scalar(); $x =~ /^y/i; } =back =head1 EXAMPLE use Net::SSH qw(sshopen2); use strict; my $user = "username"; my $host = "hostname"; my $cmd = "command"; sshopen2("$user\@$host", *READER, *WRITER, "$cmd") || die "ssh: $!"; while () { chomp(); print "$_\n"; } close(READER); close(WRITER); =head1 FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS Q: How do you supply a password to connect with ssh within a perl script using the Net::SSH module? A: You don't. Use RSA or DSA keys. See the ssh-keygen(1) manpage. Q: My script is "leaking" ssh processes. A: See L, L, L and L. =head1 AUTHOR Ivan Kohler =head1 CREDITS John Harrison contributed an example for the documentation. =head1 COPYRIGHT Copyright (c) 2000 Ivan Kohler. Copyright (c) 2000 Silicon Interactive Software Design. Copyright (c) 2000 Freeside Internet Services, LLC All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. =head1 BUGS Not OO. Look at IPC::Session (also fsh) =head1 SEE ALSO ssh-keygen(1), ssh(1), L, L, L =cut 1;