[Gllug] Accesing files over the network with perl

[Richard Jones]

On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 08:54:28AM +0100, Gerhardus Geldenhuis wrote:
> I can't use NFS and I can't use FTP to copy the files over.

I'm thinking something like this might work for you:

  open PIPE, "ssh remotehost cat /var/log/apache/access_log|";

Of course this depends on setting up ssh keys appropriately.  You
could even make it a little more secure by having the Perl script run
as a separate user, and setting up the remote ssh account so that it
will only run this one 'cat' command (see sshd(8), section
AUTHORIZED_KEYS FILE FORMAT, subsection command=...).

Rich.

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