Re: [PEPr] Comment on Networking::Net_OpenSSH

On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 12:54 PM, Luca Corbo <lucor@php.net> wrote: > On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 12:39 PM, David Jean Louis <izimobil@gmail.com> > wrote: >> Luca Corbo a écrit : >>> I know about the existence of the ssh2 pecl extension and this package want >>> to be a simple and out of the box alternative to the libssh bind. >>> Some people infact could be not able to compile or install the libssh >>> library (i.e. shared host) or simply don't want to install it. On the other >>> hand it is more simple to have an openssh client configured on your host. >>> By the way the installation on ubuntu env is quite simple but this could >>> not be true on other *nix OS (like Solaris, HP-UX ecc.). Actually, I believe your proposal requires the ability to run shell commands. I don't see why executing 'make' would require something different then executing 'ssh'. Some people may find it more difficult. But there are definitively ways (to script) around that. Ubuntu doesn't really have anything to do with it. Basically if you can compile something & can get PECL () to work (which is quite probable if you're on unix & your are intending to run PEAR anyway), you can use libssh2. Note that with libssh2, you can also open an interactive shell (as opposed to executing one command & be done with it). If compatibility is indeed your aim, then you ought to look into this because most routers (e.g. Force10) launch their own CLI as soon as an SSH connection is established. And so plain executing something will not go through their CLI and hence, not work. And so the only way to work with such a device would be to interactively communicate through this custom shell. So a driver based solution would be great, let the end user choose the mechanism. But know that if you're indeed planning to implement this in a future release, the API will have to undergo some changes (ssh_shell is a different approach then ssh_exec) so I wanted to bring this to your attention now. As a matter of fact, Jaimie Sirovich has left me a message some time ago that he was working on a similar class: http://www.seoegghead.com/software/ssh2-php-wrappers.seo That already tackled some quirks. I haven't been able to reach him yet but if you're interested I can exchange your mail addresses, then maybe you can exchange ideas / code. Let me know. It will be awesome to have something like this in PEAR. libssh2 reaching 1.0 (http://sourceforge.net/projects/libssh2/) recently, might as well be celebrated with a PEAR package, right? ;) -- Met vriendelijke groet / Kind regards, Kevin van Zonneveld http://kevin.vanzonneveld.net