argv[0] => host feature considered harmful

Lewandowsky, Matt mattl at livecapital.com
Sat Feb 10 07:05:56 EST 2001


Could it at least be conditionalized as suggested earlier? If not, I have no
problems seeing it go away, either.

--Matt

-----Original Message-----
From: Damien Miller [mailto:djm at mindrot.org]
Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2001 4:19 PM
To: Theo de Raadt
Cc: Markus.Friedl at informatik.uni-erlangen.de; openssh at openSSH.com;
openssh-unix-dev at mindrot.org
Subject: Re: argv[0] => host feature considered harmful


On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, Theo de Raadt wrote:

> >do we care about 'argv[0] => host'.
> >i don't like it but it seems to be to late to drop this
> >rlogin-compatible feature. a new option seems the only
> >good option.
> 
> I would have no problem with seeing it go away.

Ditto.

-d

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