Hi,

So I have looked for an answer to my issue and, pardon me if this has already been answered, but I have written a script that will use SCP to copy a file to a remote server. This is done in the browser and of course I am getting the error

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Error: last line returned was: stdin: is not a tty

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Here is my code: ======================= 

!/usr/local/bin/perl

use IO::Pty;
use CGI qw(:standard);
use CGI;
use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser set_message);
use CGI::Carp; # send errors to the browser, not to the logfile
use Net::SCP::Expect;
use Term::ProgressBar;

#use CGI::ProgressBar qw/:standard/;

print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";

print "<HTML>";
#print "<H1>Uploading Your File</H1>\n";

my $ipaddress=param("ipaddress");
my $remotepass=param("remotepass");
my $localfile=param("localfile");
my $remotedir=param("remotedir");
my $remoteport=param("remoteport");
my $user="root";

my $filename="./uploads/";

my $file=$filename . $localfile;

my $scpe = Net::SCP::Expect->new(host=>$ipaddress, user=>$user, passwo
+rd=>$remotepass, port=>$remoteport, auto_yes=> '1', auto_quote=> '0')
+;

$scpe->scp($file, $remotedir);

[download]

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Now I can transfer the file without any issues from a prompt of course, but am unable to do so from the browser.

What I am trying to do here is to allow people who don't know how to use scp or do not have access to a terminal to scp files to a vps (I have my reasons, it's a long story).

I have added the apache user running the script to the root group and was actually able to transfer a file to a random server, but I have been unsuccessful with any other attempt after that.

I am curious if anyone can offer any insight as to how I can work this out.

In reply to SCP and tty by croddam

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