My comments (RA>) below. I encourage others to chime in. -----Original Message----- From: Stefan Bodewig [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2003 9:12 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: SSH Tasks
On Thu, 20 Feb 2003, Rob H. Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The ssh task is different from the telnet task in that is not meant > to handle an interactive shell session, beyond the password > authentication. Why not? RA> Because there is no need to interact with the shell. > It is meant to provide the ability to execute commands remotely as > if you were running ssh as follows: > > ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] 'command arg' Which could be seen as a degenerate case with just a single <write>. RA> Sure. And the this feature could have been left out of ssh, forcing you to interact with RA> the shell. Don't you think it is unnecessary to force interactivity where none is needed? RA> Other than "consistency with the telnet command", what other value would <read>/<write> add? > This sort of thing would be much more difficult to program (and > maintain) as well. I must admit that I'm not familiar with the jsch code at all, so I can't comment on this. Stefan --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
