Comments on: Using SSH in PHP http://www.ultramegatech.com/blog/2010/01/using-ssh-in-php/ Web development blog from UltraMega Tech. Thu, 22 Jul 2010 02:09:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Gavin Reid http://www.ultramegatech.com/blog/2010/01/using-ssh-in-php/comment-page-1/#comment-1126 Gavin Reid Mon, 01 Feb 2010 19:04:17 +0000 http://www.ultramegatech.com/blog/?p=810#comment-1126 Personally, given just how difficult it is to get this thing installed and given just how unreliable it is (ssh2_exec, for example, always returns prematurely for me), I'd recommend just using phpseclib, instead: http://phpseclib.sourceforge.net/ As a pure-PHP implementation it doesn't require you compile anything or adjust any config files or anything. Plus, it just seems to work a whole lot more smoothly than the ssh2 PECL extension. Personally, given just how difficult it is to get this thing installed and given just how unreliable it is (ssh2_exec, for example, always returns prematurely for me), I’d recommend just using phpseclib, instead:

http://phpseclib.sourceforge.net/

As a pure-PHP implementation it doesn’t require you compile anything or adjust any config files or anything. Plus, it just seems to work a whole lot more smoothly than the ssh2 PECL extension.

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