A method and system for processing commands on a network device. The method may include instantiating a command execution back end that includes a parser, an activity thread, and a command execution server thread; receiving a connection; instantiating a command execution front end including a controlling terminal; detecting the instantiation of the command execution front end; creating a connection thread including an input communication channel, an output communication channel, an error communication channel, and a thread local working directory; receiving signal socket information, arguments socket information, connection environment information, a user identifier, a group identifier; a name of the controlling terminal, and a connection type; receiving additional command execution information; receiving a command; sending the command from the command execution front end to the connection thread; parsing the command using the parser; executing the parsed command to obtain a result; and providing the result to the command execution front end.