patch - forceshell

Don Mahurin dmahurin at berkeley.innomedia.com
Sat Oct 6 07:09:48 EST 2001


Markus Friedl wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 09:41:57AM -0700, Don Mahurin wrote:
> > (Imagine if ssh's problem of unquoting commands was fixed).
>
> what problem?

ssh localhost echo "lost&&found"

Though it's many a problem that most popular shells can only execute
single string commands at the command line, and ssh relies on the shell.

Either ssh could exec the command itself, or re-quote everything.

-don




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