Passwordless SSH using cgi-perl script

This is my first shot at trying out cgi-perl scripts. I have SSH keys set up between my (root user) local machine and a remote machine. I'开发者_StackOverflowm trying to run a command on the remote box and display the output on a webpage hosted from my local machine. The script runs fine from command line however, it throws SSH key error when called from the webpage because the user running the script is apache and not root. Is there a way to get around this issue?

If you not already have a restricted account, create one, create the SSH keys and add the commands that the user should be allowed to execute via sudo to the /etc/sudoers file (e.g. via visudo, more about sudoers). This is the safest approach imho.
You can even restrict the user in such a way, that he can only execute these commands. For

I don't know about Perl, but normal you can specify which user should be logged in via SSH:

ssh user@host

Update:

Are you using the Net::SSH::Perl module? If so, just set the user accordingly:

my $host = "perlhowto.com";
my $user = "user";
my $password = "password";

#-- set up a new connection
my $ssh = Net::SSH::Perl->new($host);
#-- authenticate
$ssh->login($user, $pass);

(I just copied and pasted this code from perlhowto.com)