Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2009/11/30 12:35, Lars Nooden wrote: >> ssh has used -l for a long time to desginate username. > > oh, there's a lot more history than that. it's a mostly drop-in > replacement for rsh, which also uses -l.
Yes, so changing that would be a big deal. During the transition in 1999/2000 backward compatibility with existing scripts was an obvious advantage. If I understand correctly rcp was from 4.2 BSD around 1983. When was rsh introduced and how much of a priority is it to continue to keep ssh and rsh lock-stepped? /Lars
