Fellow Monks, I come again in search of enlightenment...

We have a *nix server with a shared login (call it abc). Recently, code was put into the .profile for abc (in /home/abc) that required users provide a unique name so that history files could be separated. This was also done to root.

In the meantime, I have been building a script to automate some work being done... and the addition of this code killed my script. I am now seeing intermittent timeouts during the login process. I went in tonight and commented that code in .profile, and all worked well (no more timeouts at all). Here's what the login process looks like now (new lines between "No mail..." and "Term Type...")...

login as: abc
abc@1.2.6.8's password:
Last login: Thu Jan 16 13:46:28 UTC 2014 from 1.2.3.8 on pts/0

                              WARNING!
This computer system and network is PRIVATE and ...

No mail for abc

Please enter your unique ID: IJAF
History will be kept in /home/abc/.history-IJAF
Term type is now xterm
hostname:/home/abc->

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I am using Control::CLI to manage my interactions with the server. My current code looks like this:

$cli = new Control::CLI( Use     => 'SSH',
                         Timeout => 30,
                       );

$cli->connect(  Host            => $host,
                Username        => 'abc',
                Password        => 'pass',
             );

$port = $cli->port;

if ( defined($port) ) {
    print "\tSSH connection to server ($host) established!\n";
} else {
    print "\tSSH connection to server ($host) could not be established
+... Exiting program.\n";
    exit;
}

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Documentated examples of Control::CLI on the net are virtually non-existent (at least, in my searches). Do any of you Monks have any knowledge of how I can alter my code to deal with the additional prompt? Or, even any suggestions?

Thanks in advance!

In reply to Control::CLI and Additional Prompt At Login by ImJustAFriend

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