Greetings,
I find myself in a bit of a bind. I'm looking for a module or perhaps method that will allow me to connect via a bastion host to a remote machine (ssh). at this point i need to execute commands and store the values in either a scalar with \n to parse into an array or directly into an array.

I've looked inot using the expect module, but from what i can tell ->before only pulls a single line. Maybe i'm missing something.

I've also attempted to use Net::Tel , using a ssh session spawned to a PTY, then interacting with the PTY. The problem with this is that with at least all the versions of openssh i use it requires a valid tty or i can't auth.

That brings up the idea of using passwordless dsa keys, but i'm not fond of this.

Now i can execute an actual expect script for each command and pull the return values into an array, but that means i need to establish an individual connection for each command. And that's jut plain wasteful.

So, the question i pose is ... what other options do i have?

In reply to interact with remote host via bastion by jaco

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