Net:::OpenSSH Prompt Access

kburns1969 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

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Re: Net:::OpenSSH Prompt Access by salva (Canon) on Sep 12, 2013 at 20:47 UTC
There is no such thing as the current prompt. You get a prompt when you run an interactive shell but Net::OpenSSH doesn't talk to a remote shell. It directly executes the commands given. The SSH protocol allows to do that.	[reply]
Re^2: Net:::OpenSSH Prompt Access by kburns1969 (Novice) on Sep 12, 2013 at 21:21 UTC
I had a feeling it operated a bit differently. And about 1000x faster than other Perl SSH mods. Thanks !!	[reply]
Re^3: Net:::OpenSSH Prompt Access by salva (Canon) on Sep 13, 2013 at 08:30 UTC
Net::OpenSSH is as fast as a SSH client can be and the same can be said for most other SSH modules, i.e. Net::SSH::Perl (as far as Math::Pari installed), Net::SSH2, etc. The only one that's quite slower is Net::SSH because it establishes a new SSH connection every time it executes a remote command.	[reply]