Using sudo with Telnet

I've playing with Net::Telnet for a while now. Can anyone tell me
why when I telnet into another UNIX server and then sudo to root, I
can't
capture the "cmd" output. If I execute a command as a user "my
@RETURNED = $TELNET->cmd('uname -a');" the @RETURNED can be printed.
But after I sudo to root the log files show that uname -a is excited but
the @RETURNED array doesn't have anything in it to print.
Can anyone tell me how to get around this?

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Don Dukelow
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RE: Using sudo with Telnet

Dukelow, Don <> wrote:
> I've playing with Net::Telnet for a while now. Can anyone tell me why
> when I telnet into another UNIX server and then sudo to root, I can't
> capture the "cmd" output. If I execute a command as a user "my
> @RETURNED =3D $TELNET->cmd('uname -a');" the @RETURNED can be printed.
> But after I sudo to root the log files show that uname -a is excited
> but the @RETURNED array doesn't have anything in it to print. =

> Can anyone tell me how to get around this?

I'm not sure I understand you.

sudo is used to execute a command as another user, do you perhaps mean
su?

What happens when you type the same commands from the command line? Are
there any prompts generated that you need to respond to?

A small self contained example that illustrates the problem may also
help.

A small style issue. All upper case names are generally used for
constants. Variables generally have lower or mixed case. Small, as I
said, but it makes your code a little bit easier for other people to
read.

HTH

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Brian Raven =


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Re: Using sudo with Telnet

Dukelow, Don wrote:
> I've playing with Net::Telnet for a while now. Can anyone tell me
> why when I telnet into another UNIX server and then sudo to root, I
> can't
> capture the "cmd" output. If I execute a command as a user "my
> @RETURNED = $TELNET->cmd('uname -a');" the @RETURNED can be printed.
> But after I sudo to root the log files show that uname -a is excited but
> the @RETURNED array doesn't have anything in it to print.
> Can anyone tell me how to get around this?
>
> -----
> Don Dukelow
>

Sounds like the connection is actually timing out, possibly by the
change in the prompt.

You might try turning on debug and opening an Input_log.

Wireshark sometimes works well to capture the packets and reassemble the
conversation illustrating where the problem is occuring.


JOhn

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RE: Using sudo with Telnet

> -----Original Message-----
> From: activeperl-bounces@listserv.ActiveState.com
> [mailto:activeperl-bounces@listserv.ActiveState.com] On
> Behalf Of John Mason Jr
> Sent: Monday, July 02, 2007 3:42 PM
> To: activeperl@listserv.ActiveState.com
> Subject: Re: Using sudo with Telnet
>
> Dukelow, Don wrote:
> > I've playing with Net::Telnet for a while now. Can anyone
> tell me why
> > when I telnet into another UNIX server and then sudo to
> root, I can't
> > capture the "cmd" output. If I execute a command as a user "my
> > @RETURNED = $TELNET->cmd('uname -a');" the @RETURNED can be printed.
> > But after I sudo to root the log files show that uname -a
> is excited
> > but the @RETURNED array doesn't have anything in it to print.
> > Can anyone tell me how to get around this?
> >
> > -----
> > Don Dukelow
> >
>
> Sounds like the connection is actually timing out, possibly
> by the change in the prompt.
>

An untested thought - if you are running sudo, which is an executable,
it is likely grabbing output from the cmds you are subsequently
running and they don't make it to telnet's STD handles. Try using a
script on the remote machine that runs those commands with output
redirected to a file then retrieve the content
of that file. Not sure of sudo syntax..

$telnet->cmd('sudo root;uname -a > \tmp\mytempfile');
my @returned = $telnet->cmd('cat \tmp\mytempfile');

HTH - Lynn.




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