Greetings Brothers,

I'm having a surprisingly agonizing time trapping sudo failures via the awesome Net::OpenSSH module.

I've been trying it by using Expect, which I posted about here:
http://perlmonks.org/?node_id=890815

No matter what I do, success works great--successful sudos are not a problem--and I can even trap failures--but once I've failed to sudo I can't do any more Net::OpenSSH commands, and in fact the whole program comes to a screaching halt, unless I ctrl-c or interact in some other way, since it is prompting for another password try.

What I would like to do (I think) is simply attempt to sudo, close that connection, and then try again, this time capturing the output. If I get the expected output, then I know the sudo attempt worked. If I don't, then I need to do something else.

Here is what I'm trying currently:

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;

use Net::OpenSSH;

foreach my $host (qw/rasto@172.16.0.100 rasto@172.16.0.101/) {
my $pass2 = 'orange!';

my $ssh = Net::OpenSSH->new($host);
$ssh->error and die "unable to connect to remote host: " . $ssh->error
+;
$ssh->system('sudo -K'); #just ensuring that sudo prompts for password

my ($in, $out, $err, $pid) = $ssh->open3('sudo ls');

sleep 1;

print $in $pass2 . "\n";
close $in;
close $out;
close $err;
waitpid ($pid, 0);

my $ssh2 = Net::OpenSSH->new($host);
$ssh2->error and die "unable to connect to remote host: " . $ssh2->err
+or;

my @capture = $ssh2->capture('sudo ls 2>&1');


print @capture;

}

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The first machine has a different sudo password, and thus will fail. But when I try this I get:
rasto@frodo:~/cc$ ./test.pl 
channel 2: bad ext data
channel 2: bad ext data
channel 2: bad ext data
channel 2: bad ext data
channel 2: bad ext data
channel 2: bad ext data

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And if I hit ctrl-c I'll get the password prompt:
Password:

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What I'm kinda thinking is that one of the very cool features of Net::OpenSSH, which I've made heavy use of (thank you Salva!), is that it automagically prompts you if a remote machine puts up a sudo password prompt during a session, and it Just Works. So it's like attaching/re-attaching STDIN, STDOUT intelligently (I presume). But now that functionality is getting in my way?

In reply to Trapping sudo failures via Net::OpenSSH by rastoboy

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