Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 09:23:08 -0700 (PDT) From: "Duane H. Hesser" <dhh@androcles.com> To: Valentin Nechayev <netch@segfault.kiev.ua> Cc: freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG, Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> Subject: Re: Request for review: nsswitch Message-ID: <XFMail.000915092308.dhh@androcles.com> In-Reply-To: <20000914221528.B66058@netch.kiev.ua>
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It was a feature of rsh and rlogin in 4.2BSD, and persists to this day.
Check your sources for rsh.c and rlogin.c.
Please explain why it is `evil'.
On 14-Sep-00 Valentin Nechayev wrote:
> 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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