I have a script that works fine (with no intervention) for changing Linux passwords except when the remote system's authorized_keys file does not have an entry for our password depot server (where the script is run from). The script then halts and prompts for a password from the command line. Is there a way around this?...without forking a process. I have tried to use POE for non-blocking but I cannot get that to work either.

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

In reply to Prompted for password in OpenSSH by kdamundson

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