Hi Monks,

I've been trying to create a simple script to auto login to a remote machine, send "sudo -s" and then give control back to the user in an interactive session. Basically I don't want to have to type "sudo -s" each time I login to a device....and yes I know keeping plain text passwords etc is not a good thing!

The problem is that I can login and hand off an interactive session to the user just fine, but I can not automatically send "sudo -s" and attach it to my interactive $ssh file handle. My current working code (without any sudo command) is: 
#!/usr/bin/perl

use Net::SSH::Perl;
use Term::ReadKey;

$ip=$ARGV[0];

$user = "username";
$pass = "password";

print "connecting to $ip\n";
my $ssh = Net::SSH::Perl->new("$ip",
                                debug=>"1");
$ssh->login ($user, $pass);

ReadMode('raw');
$ssh->shell;
ReadMode('restore');

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I have tried sending the command prior to "$ssh->shell" and also requesting a pty session during login, but nothing really works. Do any of you monks have an idea how this can be done?

Many thanks

In reply to Interactive SSH and sudo -s by cstrong

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