SPUG: overriding a module's normal behavior

[Andrew Sweger]

On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, Jon Burdge wrote:

> So, in the interest of just getting things done and not messing with the 
> standard libraries, I loaded Net::SSH::Perl::Auth::KeyboardInt, then 
> defined *Net::SSH::Perl::Auth::KeyboardInt::authenticate to point to a 
> subroutine I provide.

If a module is not an object interface, then what you've done above is the
most direct approach (short of recreating the entire API in a new module).
One downside is you will not have access to any lexically scoped
structures within the module (i.e., "global" [sic] variables). But if you
need that kind of access, tapping in this way would be short-sighted.
Another downside would be circumventing the keyboard-interactive feature
of SSH. But that's a security issue you'll have to weigh.

-- 
Andrew B. Sweger -- The great thing about multitasking is that several
                                things can go wrong at once.