Thanks everyone. Some more clarity on this...
It is not cgi. I will be executing the remote code using ssh for example : ssh oracle@dbhost1 "/opt/oracle/runroot.pl"
within runroot.pl I want to make sure that the request is originating from an authorized machine.
agreed that authorization etc is handled in a different way.
I tried to use getpeername. however it is not returning anything. looks like I have to open a socket first and sort of listen on the other end then I would be able to get the getperrname(SOCK)?
I guess ssh creates some sort of a socket right? Do I have to create explicit socket to find out the host on the other side? It is complicating things :(
At the peril of sounding foolish, can I just harness the socket created by ssh connection instead? Is it possible?
thanks a lot

In reply to Re^2: Run only if it the request is originating from a specific machine by calsaint
in thread Run only if it the request is originating from a specific machine by calsaint

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