I've got two issues here. The overall goal here is to have a perl script run 'ps -ef |grep blah blah' on some remote hosts. For most machines, I can use RSH, but for some, I'm stuck with SSH. The kicker is, this is a cgi script so the apache user is the one doing the execution.

I'm using Net::SSH::Perl, but am getting no where. Here's the simple script I've got to test it.

my $ssh = Net::SSH::Perl->new('host');
$ssh->login('user','pass');
my ( $stdout, $stderr, $exit ) = $ssh->cmd('uptime');

print qq(Content-type: text/html

);

print "output from ssh: $stdout\n";
print "error from ssh: $stderr\n";
print "</html>\n";
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When I run this through the browser, I get the following error:

mkdir /.ssh: Permission denied at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.4/Net
+/SSH/Perl/Util/Hosts.pm line 50
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It looks to me as if it's trying to create a .ssh directory in / (which it obviously doesn't have permission to do). /etc/passwd says that apache's homedir is /home/httpd.

EDIT: The 2nd problem is fixed... the remote machine I was testing with was my little personal romping ground, to which I probably broke last night goofind around w/ the sshd_config.