So I'm trying to connect to our SFTP server via a Perl script using Net::OpenSSH and Net::SFTP::Foreign, but I've never worked with with these modules before, and I'm having trouble getting the script to actually put a file on my ftp server. My script is below.

#!/usr/bin/perl

use lib "PATH TO Net::OpenSSH libraries";
use Net::OpenSSH;
use IO::Pty;
use Net::SFTP::Foreign;
use Time::Piece;

$host = "SFTP ADDRESS";
$user = "SFTP USERNAME";
$pw = "SFTP PASSWORD";
$putFile = "/usr/local/nagios/Misc/sftptest";
$getFile = "sftptest";
$date = localtime->strftime('%m/%d/%Y %H:%M');

open SFILE, ">$putFile" or die $!;
print SFILE "$date\n";
close (SFILE);

$ssh = Net::OpenSSH->new(host=>$host, user=>$user, password=>$pw) or d
+ie "can't :(\n" . $ssh->error;

$sftp = $ssh->sftp();
$sftp->put($putFile) or die "Can't put\n" . $sftp->error;
$sftp->get($getFile, "/usr/local/nagios/Misc/test/sftptest") or die "C
+an't get\n" . $sftp->error;

open SFILE, "/usr/local/nagios/Misc/test/sftptest" or die $!;
while(<SFILE>){
    chomp;
    $fileOut = $_;
}

print $fileOut;
exit;

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So what I don't understand is what do I pass into the sftp() method that ssh is calling? In the Net::OpenSSH documentation, it says %sftp_opts, but since I'm connecting using the SSH connection string, what goes there? Currently if I leave it blank I get the error "Can't call method "put" on an undefined value at /usr/local/nagios/Working/sftp_fresh.pl" Thanks for the help!

In reply to How to connect to SFTP via OpenSSH by Logic_Bomb421

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