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OK then...
Because it would break an officially supported use case (rsh). It would
also break the lsh utility included with rsync (in the support dir).
The --rsh parameter is for specifying alternative remote shells that are
command line compatible with rsh.
In this discussion we have 2 well known use cases plus a basic design
feature verses a single user's custom solution that could probably be
easily re-customized to be rsh command line compatible.
On 10/20/11 01:57, Brian K. White wrote:
> On 10/20/2011 12:08 AM, Kevin Korb wrote:
> I should also point out that I am not making up cool distinctive names
> for my config file. I am using that actual host name of the system that
> I am trying to connect to so that I can type 'ssh hostname' as if I were
> plugged into the LAN that it was on.
>
> I can sit at my house with my 172.22.100.0/24 private IP, type 'ssh
> hostname', and end up logged into a server at work with a
> 192.168.42.0/24 private IP. I got there by actually connecting to a
> real internet IP address/host name but I don't have to specify that
> every stinking time I want to ssh.
>
>> Some of us ssh from random machines to other random machines.
>> Some ssh servers and clients are on appliances that are either
>> impossible or completely impractical to configure ~/.ssh/* or don't even
>> have any such thing as ~/.ssh/* in fact openssh is not even the only ssh
>> server or client even when you are dealing with a unix-like system.
>
>> Configuring ~/.ssh/* is nice in some cases, and utterly impractical, or
>> not even possible in others.
>
>> The OP's question was not about other ways to use ssh but why rsync
>> couldn't allow the user to supply an unpredicted type of url that they
>> happen to know would work if rsync would just not try to parse it but
>> just collect it and and hand it off.
>
>
> On 10/19/11 23:58, Kevin Korb wrote:
>>>> you find it easier to make a bunch of ssh config clauses first, each
>>>> with cool distinctive names? I salute your typing skills.
>
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