From owner-freebsd-arch Fri Sep 15 9:23:36 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from androcles.com (androcles.com [204.57.240.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D178237B43C for ; Fri, 15 Sep 2000 09:23:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dhh@localhost) by androcles.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id JAA87065; Fri, 15 Sep 2000 09:23:08 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20000914221528.B66058@netch.kiev.ua> Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 09:23:08 -0700 (PDT) From: "Duane H. Hesser" To: Valentin Nechayev Subject: Re: Request for review: nsswitch Cc: freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG, Wes Peters Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message > -------------- Duane H. Hesser dhh@androcles.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message