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Date:      Sat, 20 Apr 2002 12:32:36 -0500
From:      "Jacques A. Vidrine" <nectar@FreeBSD.org>
To:        "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@nagual.pp.ru>
Cc:        Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/crypto/openssh servconf.c session.c
Message-ID:  <20020420173236.GB44766@madman.nectar.cc>
In-Reply-To: <20020420170718.GA7402@nagual.pp.ru>
References:  <20020420143525.GB27108@madman.nectar.cc> <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1020420104515.64976P-100000@fledge.watson.org> <20020420145437.GB5350@nagual.pp.ru> <20020420170718.GA7402@nagual.pp.ru>

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On Sat, Apr 20, 2002 at 09:07:19PM +0400, Andrey A. Chernov wrote:
> Well, I have strong suspicion about the reason. It seems that ssh
> maintainers just leave !use_login case to be slowly rotten in time moving
> towards use_login case. 

No, if anything, use of UseLogin is discouraged.

> It is because login emulation is very different on
> different machines, so it is much simple to just call external login
> program, from code support perspective. 

But this is insufficient in most cases.

> But it not means that FreeBSD must
> follow this path, there are almost no needs currently to call external
> login, moreover it is not efficient and may cause auth duplication in
> certain cases.

And the reasons you give here are why.
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Jacques A. Vidrine <n@nectar.cc>                 http://www.nectar.cc/
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