Respected Monks,

I have a task in which we need to connect to remote system using a normal user and then switch to a different priviledged user to execute some priviledge commands. I am using Net::Telnet module to connect to remote systems and then have to use "su" to switch to the other user using Expect module.

But I am able to connect to the system using the normal user but as when we enter the command on the general terminal 

 # su -root -c 'command' 
 Password:

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It prompts for a password for that trying to use Expect module but I am unable to do it. I think am doing wrong here Here is a small script that I am trying to use 

my  $t = Net::Telnet->new( -host => $ip , -timeout => 60, -errmode => 
+"return");

        do{ print qq{Failed open Telnet Session for '$host' };
        exit 1; } unless ( $t );

        $t->login( $user,$passwd );

        do { print qq{Login Failed for '$host'} ;
        exit 1 } if ( $t->errmsg );

        my $cmd1 =  "\$OMNIHOME/bin/nco_ping NCO_PA ";
        my @out1 = $t->cmd(String => $cmd1, Timeout => 10 );
        print " Out ==> @out1 \n";

        my $exp = Expect->exp_init($t);
        $timeout = 3;

        $exp->expect($timeout,
                    [
                'Password: $',
                sub {
                  my $fh = shift;
                  print $fh "$password\n";
                  exp_continue;
                }
               ],
        );
        #my $cmd2 = "su root -c ls ";

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I am unable to find any examples to do that and searched a lot but could not find any. Please guide me so that I can switch to the other user and use that telnet channel to execute priviledged commands and get the output.

Thanks In Advance

Sushil Kumar

In reply to Using Expect module in Net::Telnet by msk_0984

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