Hi, I was trying to embed a ssh key in a script and pass it via stdin (unfortunately not directly supported by ssh). Investigating ways how this can be done, I ran into a curiosity. With bash, the following does about what I need:
#!/bin/bash ssh -i /dev/stdin luser@localhost ls <<EOF -----BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY----- .... Trying to do the same thing with perl: #!/usr/bin/perl open STDIN, ">&DATA"; exec "ssh -i /dev/stdin luser\@localhost ls"; __END__ -----BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY----- .... does _not_ work - ssh will complain "Permissions 0755 for '/dev/stdin' are too open" (which is not true anyway) and refuse to use the key. Does somebody have a good explanation for this different behavior? I thought, from the perspective of ssh both variants should be equivalent ... Regards, Peter -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/