Re: SSH Sessions ?

[Adam Ruth <adam.ruth@mac.com>]

In article <cf8iab$qav$1@a1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de>,
 Georg Bauhaus <sb463ba@l1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de> wrote:

> Chris Humphries <chris@unixfu.net> wrote:
> :   Has anyone written or have a way to do SSH sessions via ADA?
> : 
> :   Looking to: 1) connect to servers from having the username, password, and 
> :   ip
> :               2) execute one command
> :               3) save the text/status returned from the command
> 
> Not exactly like ssh, but would SOAP via HTTPS be an option?
> http://libre.act-europe.fr/aws/aws-2.0p.html#Using%20SOAP
> 
> 
> -- Georg

I'm doing this very thing myself, and I'm just using the command line 
version of ssh.  I execute it using the system call (the c library 
system(const char *command) call).  It's pretty straight forward, since 
I don't need to do much that's complicated, just execute a remote 
command line program as though it was being executed on my local command 
line.

2 caveats.  First, I use public key authentication instead of a 
password.  Second, I pipe my error stream to standard output (using 
2>&1), so stderr and stdout are all mucnched together.  But that works 
fine for what I'm doing (it's simpler than using one of the popen 
commands).

If you'd like some more details, I'll be glad to offer them.

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Adam Ruth
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