Hi wise ones,

I am trying to figure out how to use 'sudo su -' with a Net::OpenSSH. I've read the various documentation, but I am still stumped. What I want to do is log onto a box, sudo su - to a particular user, and then dump the crontab contents for that user.

Here is what I have so far -- basically, it sudos alright, but hangs before executing the crontab -l. I have to ctrl-c to get out of the script. When I ssh into the box, and sudo su - to the user manually, it works fine.

Any tips would be much appreciated. Thanks! 

use strict;
use warnings;
use Data::Dumper;

use Net::OpenSSH;

my $user = 'user';  #this is just for testing -- final script will ask
+ for user's input.

my $password = 'password'; #this is just for testing -- see above

my $host = 'whater.host.to.check';

my $ssh = Net::OpenSSH->new($host, user => $user, password => $passwor
+d, strict_mode => 0); 


my $test = $ssh->system('sudo su - user && crontab -l');  #once script
+ sudos, script hangs until I ctrl-c. 



print Dumper $test;

print Dumper $ssh;

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