[Bug 273] sshd hangs on shell exit if user spawned child with /bin/nohup

[Ed Phillips]

On 12 Jul 2002, Eric Garff wrote:

> Date: 12 Jul 2002 13:00:21 -0600
> From: Eric Garff <egarff at omniture.com>
> To: Nicolas.Williams at ubsw.com
> Cc: openssh-unix-dev at mindrot.org
> Subject: RE: [Bug 273] sshd hangs on shell exit if user spawned child
>     with /bin/nohup
>
> On Fri, 2002-07-12 at 12:25, Nicolas.Williams at ubsw.com wrote:
> > SSH is more than a secure RSH. It truly is. You can't have it
> > be two conflicting things at the same time.
>
> >From the openssh "man ssh" page:
>
> "It is intended to replace rlogin and rsh, and provide secure encrypted
> communications between two untrusted hosts over an insecure network."
>
> I can agree that it is "more" than secure RSH, but if it plans to
> replace it, shouldn't it have the same functionality?

A replacement doesn't necessarily need to work the same as what it's
replacing.  Maybe they should use words like "It is intended to be a
secure alternative to rlogin and rsh..."

	Ed

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