Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 14:23:05 -0500 From: Will Andrews <will@physics.purdue.edu> To: "Duane H. Hesser" <dhh@androcles.com> Cc: Valentin Nechayev <netch@segfault.kiev.ua>, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG, Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> Subject: Re: Request for review: nsswitch Message-ID: <20000915142305.L40658@radon.gryphonsoft.com> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.000915092308.dhh@androcles.com>; from dhh@androcles.com on Fri, Sep 15, 2000 at 09:23:08AM -0700 References: <20000914221528.B66058@netch.kiev.ua> <XFMail.000915092308.dhh@androcles.com>
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On Fri, Sep 15, 2000 at 09:23:08AM -0700, Duane H. Hesser wrote: > 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'. I don't necessarily think it's `evil', but rather an unneeded feature. As someone else demonstrated, its functionality can be equated with a really simple shell script. I would prefer to go against "creeping featurism" in this case and ask that this feature not be merged into ssh from rsh. Rsh is evil and I don't give a flying rat's patootie about it. -- Will Andrews <will@physics.purdue.edu> <will@FreeBSD.org> GCS/E/S @d- s+:+ a--- C++ UB++++$ P+ L- E--- W+ N-- !o ?K w--- O- M+ V- PS+ PE++ Y+ PGP+>+++ t++ 5 X+ R+ tv+ b++ DI+++ D+ G++ e>++++ h! r- y? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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