- SSH via Perl from a Windows box. Should be just a matter of choosing between Net::SSH2 and Net::SSH::Perl, right? Neither seems to work for me. I can execute commands, but I can't read the output. There's even a module (Net::SSH::W32Perl) which apparently attempts to resolve compatibility issues, but all it really does is flip blocking on and off for the inet socket at certain points in the connection.
- Scripting interactions with sudo over SSH. Who knew THIS would be so irritating? The basic problem, I think, is that sudo doesn't read the password from stdin by default. It does have an option to force it to do so, so I just did that. I'm still not able to read the password prompt, though (it's not on stdout or stderr), so I have to kind of fudge it. Did I mention this is all happening in a PHP script that talks to a Bash script which calls SSH to talk to another machine? Yeah. It's kind of a Rube Goldberg contraption.
- Performing forensics on a Windows Mobile device. You'd think this would be widely supported, but in fact, it seems it's very POORLY supported. I have a trial version of Device Seizure from Paraben Software, which at least claims to do what I'm trying to do. It keeps wanting to crash during acquisition, though, so we'll see how far we get.
- Also had some problems getting the TOC::Oscar module to work right in Perl, but I'll chalk that up to my own laziness in RTFM.
Hmm, that's all kind of embarrassing to post in public.
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