Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 22:15:28 +0300 From: Valentin Nechayev <netch@segfault.kiev.ua> To: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> Cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Request for review: nsswitch Message-ID: <20000914221528.B66058@netch.kiev.ua> In-Reply-To: <39B48B6E.158195C4@softweyr.com>; from wes@softweyr.com on Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 05:58:00AM %2B0000 References: <200009050320.UAA04806@usr02.primenet.com> <39B48B6E.158195C4@softweyr.com>
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Hello Wes Peters!
Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 05:58:00, wes wrote about "Re: Request for review: nsswitch":
> One of the UNIX systems I've used over the years, probably SunOS, allowed
> you to add the name of a host as a {sym,}link to rlogin; the executable
> would check argv[0] and if it wasn't a recognized pattern try it as a
> hostname. The common usage was to add links to your favorite hosts in
> /hosts/name and add that to your PATH.
>
> My vote would be to add this feature to ssh.
I consider this feature as evil.
/netch
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