Since the the new sftp will use jcraft (http://www.jcraft.com/), it would be nice to have the ability to issue commands to an unix ssh session.
We run some unix commands like rsync, chmod, sed, awk to push pages to our production server. It would be nice to managing this all in one place like the workbench.
Coming in 6.6 is the ability to create generic “Tasks” in the publishing system. These can be tacked on to the end of an edition, or run independently. Rsync and link checkers are the common examples of this.
I’m not an expert on what you’d need for SSH, but the function is generic and comes with some API as well.
We’ve done a couple short briefings for customers on 6.6, but will be doing a longer one with a bit more detail some time in Q4. 6.6 ETA is early Q1.