OK, I'm back. I now have this module in place and it fails when running the cmd.


 my ($server, $newpass) = @_;
   my $ssh = Net::OpenSSH->new($server);
   my $userstr = "root" . "\:" . "$newpass";
   my $cmd = "echo $userstr | /usr/sbin/chpasswd";
#  $ssh->system("$cmd");
   $ssh->system({quote_args => 1}, $cmd);
   if ($ssh->error)
   {
      Logit(*DBLOG,"FAILED: Remote SSH cmd\n");
      return (1);
   }
   return (0,"$ssh->error");

The error from running the sytem command is:

bash: echo root:3\%vdm7cl | /usr/sbin/chpasswd: No such file or directory


The \ in front of the % is to escape a special character. This exact command works from the command line. It seems the module is not passing soemthing correctly to the shell, but the printout certainly looks good.

In reply to Net::OpenSSH error by kdamundson

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