passing commands via ssh

[Mignon Hunter]

Hello all,

I am trying to execute a command on another server from my web
application.

I need to execute the command via ssh for security reasons. I have a
private key/passphrase installed for ssh so that I can run ssh without a
password.

The command:

ssh -i vertex vertex@wolf TX 77041 COD 10000.00

Works from my box's command line. The vertex 'key' for ssh is also in
the same directory.

But when I run
system(ssh -i vertex vertex@wolf TX 77041 COD 10000.00)
from my script I get an error:

Host key verification failed.

Also, when including the return status var I get different values such
as: 255 or 127 or 1....But I do not know what these mean.

This may not be a php issue but a webserver issue - sorry but I have no
ideas at this point.

Do I need to look in to some other functions to facilitate this? I did
try passthru() and exec() with similar results.

Any help is as always greatly appreciated.

Thx
Mignon

[Jeff Harris]

On Jul 9, 2003, "Mignon Hunter" claimed that:

|Hello all,
|
|I am trying to execute a command on another server from my web
|application.
|
|I need to execute the command via ssh for security reasons. I have a
|private key/passphrase installed for ssh so that I can run ssh without a
|password.
|
|The command:
|
|ssh -i vertex vertex@wolf TX 77041 COD 10000.00
|
|Works from my box's command line. The vertex 'key' for ssh is also in
|the same directory.
|
|But when I run
|system(ssh -i vertex vertex@wolf TX 77041 COD 10000.00)
|from my script I get an error:
|
|Host key verification failed.
|
[snip]
|Any help is as always greatly appreciated.
|
|Thx
|Mignon

Do you have the private key/passphrase installed as a regular user or the
httpd user of the local machine on the remote machine?

PHP will run the scripts as the httpd user, not as the user who owns the
script.

<?php
$line = exec("/usr/bin/id");
print ("PHP runs as $line\n</pre>\n");
?>

Jeff

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