From owner-freebsd-arch Fri Sep 15 12:25:33 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from radon.gryphonsoft.com (mcut-b-167.resnet.purdue.edu [128.211.209.167]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4998D37B424 for ; Fri, 15 Sep 2000 12:25:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: by radon.gryphonsoft.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id B2B961AAB; Fri, 15 Sep 2000 14:23:05 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 14:23:05 -0500 From: Will Andrews To: "Duane H. Hesser" Cc: Valentin Nechayev , freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG, Wes Peters Subject: Re: Request for review: nsswitch Message-ID: <20000915142305.L40658@radon.gryphonsoft.com> Reply-To: Will Andrews References: <20000914221528.B66058@netch.kiev.ua> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from dhh@androcles.com on Fri, Sep 15, 2000 at 09:23:08AM -0700 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 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