Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 12:30:47 -0700 From: Sriranga Veeraraghavan <ranga@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU> To: freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Request for review: nsswitch Message-ID: <200009141930.MAA20323@soda.csua.Berkeley.edu> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 14 Sep 2000 22:15:28 %2B0300." <20000914221528.B66058@netch.kiev.ua>
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> > 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.
Hi,
I don't think it is a good idea to add such a feature (of dubious
benefit to most users) to a program like ssh.
If you really want something like this create a script like the
following in $HOME/bin:
#!/bin/sh
exec ssh `basename "$0"` $@
and symlink it to the hostnames you want. Then add $HOME/bin to PATH
and you have basically the same functionality.
----ranga
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