What magic did openssh do to handle programs like VIM?

[Nico Kadel-Garcia]

On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 5:20 PM, Damien Miller <djm at mindrot.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Feb 2014, Michael Stone wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 04:10:03AM -0500, you wrote:
>> > On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 3:39 AM, Aaron Lewis <the.warl0ck.1989 at gmail.com>
>> > wrote:
>> > > Hi,
>> > >
>> > > I'm trying to write my own remote shell program,
>> >
>> > *Why*?
>>
>> Sometimes, people like to learn things.
>
> Right. Before I started porting OpenSSH all those years ago I wrote a
> rsh-over-TLS remote shell program that is thankfully lost to history.
> There is no way I would have been able to meaningfully work on sshd
> without that experience.

And sometimes people don't know what's already available, such as the
old telnetd and rshd code, or why it's such a horribly bad idea to use
in modern "people's laptops are often rootkitted" packet sniffing
environments. So an actual answer "why" would actually be useful.