Hi Salva,

Thanks for the response. When I did it just as you said, I got:

fcntl returned undef during exp_init of Expect=GLOB(0x97b1760), Bad fi
+le descriptor

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I had had issues trying to include the -k in the sudo command, so I made it a separate $ssh->system() call, and it does seem to work except that I have to hit Enter for it to go into interactive mode. Sounds trivial, I know, but I'm hitting rather a lot of machines.

If I get rid of exp_continue after sending the password, it goes straightaway. Unfortunately, if it fails it doesn't catch the "Sorry", and just prompts me for a password. So it's a catch-22.

I'll be darned if I can detect a substantive difference between your code and mine, too, beyond what I've mentioned!

I'm on Ubuntu 10 and OpenSSH:
OpenSSH_5.5p1 Debian-4ubuntu5, OpenSSL 0.9.8o 01 Jun 2010

In reply to Re^2: Losing my mind with Net::OpenSSH and Expect by rastoboy
in thread Losing my mind with Net::OpenSSH and Expect by rastoboy

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