Re^2: Net::SSH::Perl - looking for someone to point me in the right direction

Sorry about the tags. I tried that but I think I'm use impaired.

Well, nothing, really. I work the ssh by hand and can see where the key information tries to write. I looked at all the files and found that I have a ./ssh in root and my_userid (which is expected). I turned on total use permissions for each just to see if it is trying to access one of these - but it's not.

So I went into the Hosts.pm file until Net::SSH::Perl and discovered the routine "sub _add_host_to_hostfile" is the one containing the check and error.

The code in there that errors is the following:

unless (-d $dir) {
  print "Inside the 'unless'". "<br / >";
  require File::Path;
  File::Path::mkpath([ $dir ])
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Now I'm pretty much stuck. I feel like the dullest person in the world right now. I apologize!

Thank you for the help. I AM happy to have it! REALLY!!

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Re^3: Net::SSH::Perl - looking for someone to point me in the right direction by talexb (Chancellor) on Oct 04, 2005 at 20:27 UTC
Why don't we back up a bit -- what are you trying to do, log on to an SSH session through a form? Alex / talexb / Toronto "Groklaw is the open-source mentality applied to legal research" ~ Linus Torvalds	[reply]
Re^4: Net::SSH::Perl - looking for someone to point me in the right direction by Anonymous Monk on Oct 04, 2005 at 21:46 UTC
Yes. From my original post: "I'm trying to use Net::SSH::Perl to establish a secure connection to a server through CGI. I'm the VERY first to admit that perhaps this may not be the way to go but I'm a new and needing advice. Please PLEASE offer any! I created a form with a 'post' to a cgi script. The cgi script tries to use Net::SSH::Perl to login to the server." If there is a better way to do this than I am game. In the long run I hope to use an HTML form to submit a job under a userid/password so that a job can execute as that user and return data to a directory owned by them. Does anyone else do this?	[reply]
Re^5: Net::SSH::Perl - looking for someone to point me in the right direction by talexb (Chancellor) on Oct 05, 2005 at 03:00 UTC
Sorry -- the combination of GET and POST along with Net::SSH::Perl quite confused me. You've already got quite a good answer from brother graff below, but essentially the problem is that you're trying to execute a secure, asynchronous process using an insecure, synchronous medium. It's just not a good fit. Rather than focus on using Net::SSH, why not have a web application create a file in a certain location (perhaps based on the user's values in a form that you have them fill out), and have a cron job watch for the arrival of that file. When the file's arrival is noted, it can be moved (so it's not executed twice) and then used to execute a process, with the output data left in some suitable destination directory. You could even send E-Mail to the submitter when the process is complete, or if this is part of a larger web application, flag the user that their job is done. Alex / talexb / Toronto "Groklaw is the open-source mentality applied to legal research" ~ Linus Torvalds	[reply]