mwinussh - Manage Windows Users via SSH (MWinUSSH)

A simple command line program to manage user accounts and sessions on a Windows machine (Windows 10 tested) via ssh. It was written when my son's primary computer changed from an iMac to Windows 10. The program that I wrote to similarly control the iMac is written in bash, but Windows 10 was a larger lift and needed Perl. I named this program mwinussh thinking that I may create and release an analogous mmacussh at a later date.

Run the program with --help as a command line option to learn about its command line options and to see examples of usage.

Simple "key value" pair configuration files can be used by this program to save you from having to specify so many command line arguments. You can instruct the program to use a particular config file with --conf=<file> and the program will automatically look for and use any <progname>.conf file that exists in the same directory with it.

This program requires these non-core modules:

IPC::Run - libipc-run-perl on Ubuntu

This program requires the ssh binary and was first developed using OpenSSH_7.2p2 on Linux Mint with the ssh binary located at /usr/bin/ssh. If your ssh binary is in a different location, set the $SSH_EXE variable in the code accordingly.

This program requires you to provide a --sshid file holding an openssh private key that will be accepted --host for --user in order to perform its work. The --user must be an Administator on the Windows --host for this program to function properly.

There is some information and some ULRs in comments at the top of the program that may prove helpful in installing and configuring OpenSSH for Windows 10 in such a way that this program will work.

Lester Hightower <hightowe at cpan dot org>

This program may be distributed under the same terms as Perl itself.

2030-Sep-29 v1.0 - Initial release.

Consider porting to Net::OpenSSH or Net::SSH2.

• Originally written and tested on Linux Mint 18.3.

UNIX/System_administration, Win32/Utilities