I have a script that runs on Linux, but does not run on Windows Perl. Its job is to ssh into a system, do a command, and return the results (In this example an 'ls' to a linux box). It uses Net::SSH::Perl for connection.

When I run this under Red-Hat Linux with Perl v 5.8.0, it runs as expected, returning the listing of the directory. However, under Windows (ActiveState Perl v5.8.8b817) an error is returned. The error is "The getwuid function is unimplemented at c:/Perl/site/lib/Net/SSH/Perl.pm line 110. Net::SSH::Perl was not in the default libraries, so I ran CPAN and installed it from there.

When this error arose, I removed the directories from the site/lib directory, and ran PPM (after installing the http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/ppms/ repository). I have the same error.

Has anyone else had problems using this module on Windows, and know what to do to fix it? I did a search using "Net::SSH::Perl Windows" and only saw a 'permission denied' entry.

Here is my example 

use strict;
use warnings;

use Net::SSH::Perl;

my $server = "mycomp.mywork.office";

my $ssh = Net::SSH::Perl->new($server, options => ["BatchMode yes"])
    or die "Failed trying to create primary SSH connection\n";

$ssh->config->set('interactive', 1)
  unless defined $ssh->config->get('interactive');

$ssh->login("myname", "mypass") or die "Login failed (ssh)\n";

my $cmd = "ls -ltr";
my @response = $ssh->cmd("$cmd");
print "RESPONSE = @response\n";


output::
C:\perlfiles>perl sshtest.pl
The getpwuid function is unimplemented at C:/Perl/site/lib/Net/SSH/Per
+l.pm line
110.

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Thanks!

In reply to un-inplemented function in Net::SSH::Perl for Activestate Perl? by wulvrine

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