From owner-freebsd-arch Thu Sep 14 12:15:58 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from segfault.kiev.ua (segfault.kiev.ua [193.193.193.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA20437B422 for ; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 12:15:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from netch@localhost) by segfault.kiev.ua (8) id WFY83868; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 22:15:29 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from netch) Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 22:15:28 +0300 From: Valentin Nechayev To: Wes Peters Cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Request for review: nsswitch Message-ID: <20000914221528.B66058@netch.kiev.ua> Reply-To: netch@segfault.kiev.ua References: <200009050320.UAA04806@usr02.primenet.com> <39B48B6E.158195C4@softweyr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <39B48B6E.158195C4@softweyr.com>; from wes@softweyr.com on Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 05:58:00AM +0000 X-42: On Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message