I have to read the contents of a remote file I have permissions to (sudo) read with
cat,less or tail.
I am going to be doing this in Ruby so I assume I should be using Net::SSH to do it.
The file is a log file so it can be quite big.
This is the code I am trying now:
require 'rubygems'
require 'net/ssh'
cmd = "sudo cat /var/logs/httpd/ACCESS_log.2012.03.23"
Net::SSH.start( "SERVER" , "USER", :password => "PASSWORD") do |ssh|
ssh.open_channel do |channel|
channel.request_pty
channel.exec(cmd);
channel.on_close do
puts "shell terminated"
end
channel.on_eof do |ch|
puts "remote end is done sending data"
end
channel.on_extended_data do |ch, type, data|
puts "got stderr: #{data.inspect}"
end
channel.on_data do |channel, data|
if data =~ /^\[sudo\] password for USER:/
puts "data works"
channel.send_data 'PASSWORD'
end
channel.on_data do |ch,data|
puts "in third"
puts data.inspect
end
end
channel.on_process do |ch|
puts "in process"
end
ssh.loop
end
end
When I run that I get the following output:
in process
in process
in process
data works
in process
in process
in process
in third
"\r\n"
remote end is done sending data
shell terminated
The log actually currently has a few thousand lines of data in it, because I can read it from the actual server using putty.
How do I get that out from channel.on_data ?
Thanks
I think you need to add a \n
to the password you send. This works for me. Note, The place where I commented out the else clause, you could possibly get the info from there too, but it works as you have it, but with a \n
in the password.
require 'rubygems'
require 'net/ssh'
cmd = "sudo cat /var/log/mail.log"
HOSTNAME = "myhost.example.com"
USERNAME = "me"
PASSWORD = "12345"
Net::SSH.start( HOSTNAME , USERNAME, :password => PASSWORD) do |ssh|
ssh.open_channel do |channel|
channel.request_pty
channel.exec(cmd);
channel.on_close do
puts "shell terminated"
end
channel.on_eof do |ch|
puts "remote end is done sending data"
end
channel.on_extended_data do |ch, type, data|
puts "got stderr: #{data.inspect}"
end
channel.on_data do |channel, data|
if data =~ /^\[sudo\] password for #{USERNAME}:/
puts "data works"
channel.send_data "#{PASSWORD}\n"
else
#puts "OUTPUT NOT MATCHED: #{data}"
end
channel.on_data do |ch,data|
puts "in third"
puts data.inspect
end
end
channel.on_process do |ch|
puts "in process"
end
ssh.loop
end
end
You are replacing a new on_data
callback while executing an on_data
callback. I haven't spelunked the internals of Net::SSH, but that could produce surprising behavior.
Try changing your code in your two on_data callbacks to be one, and see if that helps.
channel.on_data do |channel, data|
if data =~ /^\[sudo\] password for USER:/
puts "data works"
channel.send_data 'PASSWORD'
else
puts "in third"
puts data.inspect
if
end
As a side note, since you need sudo to read the logs, someone thinks they and that server are worth protecting. It looks like you're embedding passwords which give privileged access to the server in this ruby program. That implies anyone who can read the program gains the same privileged access. What will you do to limit access to the password in this program?
require 'net/ssh'
Net::SSH.start('host', 'user', :password => "password") do |ssh|
# capture all stderr and stdout output from a remote process
output = ssh.exec!("hostname")
puts output
# capture only stdout matching a particular pattern
stdout = ""
ssh.exec!("ls -l /home/jamis") do |channel, stream, data|
stdout << data if stream == :stdout
end
puts stdout
# run multiple processes in parallel to completion
ssh.exec "sed ..."
ssh.exec "awk ..."
ssh.exec "rm -rf ..."
ssh.loop
# open a new channel and configure a minimal set of callbacks, then run
# the event loop until the channel finishes (closes)
channel = ssh.open_channel do |ch|
ch.exec "/usr/local/bin/ruby /path/to/file.rb" do |ch, success|
raise "could not execute command" unless success
# "on_data" is called when the process writes something to stdout
ch.on_data do |c, data|
$stdout.print data
end
# "on_extended_data" is called when the process writes something to stderr
ch.on_extended_data do |c, type, data|
$stderr.print data
end
ch.on_close { puts "done!" }
end
end
channel.wait
# forward connections on local port 1234 to port 80 of www.capify.org
ssh.forward.local(1234, "www.capify.org", 80)
ssh.loop { true }
end
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