I'm trying to write a program in perl which runs ssh login to a unix box interactively from a web browser.

Sorry, but... Why do you want to do that? That is, what are you trying to accomplish, really? (What is the goal?)

While you work on the answer to that question, think about this: supposing you could succeed in starting an interactive login on a unix box from a web browser. What would happen next? What goes to the browser if/when the login succeeds? What do you expect to happen to the login when the perl script on the webserver finishes writing stuff back to the browser?

(Hint: a unix login implies an interactive shell, which sends a prompt to the user via its stdout, waits for a command line on its stdin (typically a tty device), and exits when it detects EOF on stdin or a write failure on stdout. You can do a login that simply executes a particular script or process, but this is non-interactive.)

Depending on what you're actually trying to accomplish, there's probably a way to do it -- but if it involves an interactive login shell on the unix box, I don't think you'll be doing that via a browser.

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