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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] [MERGE-REQUEST] Support for several SSH implementat
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Ludovic Courtès |
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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] [MERGE-REQUEST] Support for several SSH implementations |
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Tue, 10 Jan 2006 18:15:49 +0100 |
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"Alfred M\. Szmidt" <address@hidden> writes:
> One small comment, make the variable names a bit more generic and
> descriptive and preferbly use an existing name. For example,
> TLA_SSH_BINARY is bad since another GNU Arch implementation could
> implement such a feature.
I wondered, too. Probably `ARCH_' would be a better prefix.
> Adding _BINARY is redundant too.
No, it's not. By default, the program name is determined based on the
SSH implementation type. I.e., the default program name for
implementation type `lsh' is `lshc', the program name for `openssh' is
`ssh', etc.
But sometimes you'll want to specify another program name, like `lshg'
for implementation type `lsh', or, say, `/usr/openstuff/ssh' for
`openssh', hence the `_BINARY' option.
> Since you could in theory end up using plain old remote shell, or a
> variant of it that encrypts the traffic or anything inbetween. I'm
> also skeptical over the RSH_TYPE thing too, cannot this be specified
> in some other way? By only using the RSH variable? Not even sure what
> that variable does...
That's what I thought at first but it is not true in the current
implementation: tla really expects some implementation of SFTP, not an
arbitrary RSH implementation.
Theoretically, I agree that a generic RSH layer would have been, well,
more generic.
> Wonderful patch though, I prefer using lsh over ssh so I'll enjoy this
> one. :-)
So do I. But note that (on PPC at least) an `abrowse' with `lshc' or
even `lshg' turns out to be much, much slower (around 12 times as slow
as OpenSSH!).
Thanks,
Ludovic.
Re: [Gnu-arch-users] [MERGE-REQUEST] Support for several SSH implementations, Andy Tai, 2006/01/10
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- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: [MERGE-REQUEST] Support for several SSH implementations, Ludovic Courtès, 2006/01/11
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: [MERGE-REQUEST] Support for several SSH implementations, Alfred M\. Szmidt, 2006/01/11
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: [MERGE-REQUEST] Support for several SSH implementations, Ludovic Courtès, 2006/01/12
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: [MERGE-REQUEST] Support for several SSH implementations, Alfred M\. Szmidt, 2006/01/12
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: [MERGE-REQUEST] Support for several SSH implementations, Ludovic Courtès, 2006/01/12
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: [MERGE-REQUEST] Support for several SSH implementations, Alfred M\. Szmidt, 2006/01/12