yes, the web user's .ssh directory didn't exist, and the web user didn't have enough rights to create it, so i got an error like this: 
bash-2.05b$ perl vtadmin.cgi 
Content-Type: text/html

<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>Remote Configure Test</TITLE></HEAD><BODY>creating 
+ssh connection<br>
logging in<br>
running command: ls -l<br>
mkdir /home/httpd/vhosts/koolaid.com/.ssh: Permission denied at /usr/l
+ib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/Net/SSH/Perl/Util/Hosts.pm line 50

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so i created the .ssh directory and gave it the appropriate permissions and all was well (at least from the command line) after that point

i figured i was out of the woods when i found that, but i still get no output from the remote command when i run the script from the web browser

In reply to Re: Re: Re: Re: Net::SSH::Perl shell vs web by Anonymous Monk
in thread Net::SSH::Perl shell vs web by mikihasa

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