Merge pull request #12036 from jwhonce/issues/11984

test connection add

2 files changed, 5 insertions, 11 deletions

diff --git a/cmd/podman/system/connection/add.go b/cmd/podman/system/connection/add.go
index 290b3c245..ee237d7d0 100644
--- a/cmd/podman/system/connection/add.go
+++ b/cmd/podman/system/connection/add.go
@@ -226,12 +226,7 @@ func getUDS(cmd *cobra.Command, uri *url.URL, iden string) (string, error) {
 	if v, found := os.LookupEnv("PODMAN_BINARY"); found {
 		podman = v
 	}
-	run := podman + " info --format=json"
-	out, err := ExecRemoteCommand(dial, run)
-	if err != nil {
-		return "", err
-	}
-	infoJSON, err := json.Marshal(out)
+	infoJSON, err := ExecRemoteCommand(dial, podman+" info --format=json")
 	if err != nil {
 		return "", err
 	}
diff --git a/cmd/podman/system/connection/shared.go b/cmd/podman/system/connection/shared.go
index 3fd7c59fb..714ae827d 100644
--- a/cmd/podman/system/connection/shared.go
+++ b/cmd/podman/system/connection/shared.go
@@ -9,10 +9,10 @@ import (
 
 // ExecRemoteCommand takes a ssh client connection and a command to run and executes the
 // command on the specified client. The function returns the Stdout from the client or the Stderr
-func ExecRemoteCommand(dial *ssh.Client, run string) (string, error) {
+func ExecRemoteCommand(dial *ssh.Client, run string) ([]byte, error) {
 	sess, err := dial.NewSession() // new ssh client session
 	if err != nil {
-		return "", err
+		return nil, err
 	}
 	defer sess.Close()
 
@@ -21,8 +21,7 @@ func ExecRemoteCommand(dial *ssh.Client, run string) (string, error) {
 	sess.Stdout = &buffer                 // output from client funneled into buffer
 	sess.Stderr = &bufferErr              // err form client funneled into buffer
 	if err := sess.Run(run); err != nil { // run the command on the ssh client
-		return "", errors.Wrapf(err, bufferErr.String())
+		return nil, errors.Wrapf(err, bufferErr.String())
 	}
-	out := buffer.String() // output from command
-	return out, nil
+	return buffer.Bytes(), nil
 }