Hello. First question here.

I am trying to get Perl to SSH to a Unix machine. The possible origin machines are Unix, Linux and Windows XP. The problem is, it is all behind a very restrictive firewall (no FTP, authenticating HTTP that PPM cannot get through even I set up HTTP_proxy*).

I have Perl installed in the three machines, and all three have SSH clients (PuTTY in Windows). But I cannot get Open2($r, $w, "ssh destination") to work (I cannot do the SSH public key authentication, I cannot meddle with the destination machine) and I cannot use CPAN nor PPM to connect to a repository.

So I need help on how to do one of the following:

  1. Get Open2 to work with password authentication.
  2. Set a private repository and choose which files to put and where, to get CPAN / PPM to install Net::SSH, and get it to work with password authentication.
  3. Install the Net::SSH and all dependencies manually, and get it to work with password authentication.
  4. Something else you guys and girls think about.

Thanks in advance.

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