CODEWITHSUNDEEP
perlputty
user3058854
user3058854

Reputation: 43

Perl script to create a SSH session to a remote machine using Putty and execute commands from a Windows machine

I want to create an SSH session to a remote machine using Perl, and execute commands automatically from a Windows machine. Is there a way I can do that?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1485

Answers (1)

Borodin
Borodin

Reputation: 126742

The Net::SSH module relies on a command-line ssh tool, which Windows doesn't have straight from the box.

I suggest you use Putty's plink command instead of putty itself, as plink is much closer to an ssh command-line utility and is intended for this sort of thing. Together with IPC::Open3 (or IPC::Open2 if you're not interested in seeing the output to STDERR) it will let you print commands and and readline the responses interactively. I am sure you can create your own log files.

Alternatively you could consider Net::SSH::W32Perl, which is a compatibility layer around Net::SSH::Perl. It is rather old but should be better than relying on Putty.

Upvotes: 2

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