On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 5:20 PM, Damien Miller <djm@xxxxxxxxxxx> 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@xxxxxxxxx> >> > 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. _______________________________________________ openssh-unix-dev mailing list openssh-unix-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.mindrot.org/mailman/listinfo/openssh-unix-dev
