Hello everybody, today I was fiddling with c-kermit and zssh to test in-band file transfers. Both tools insist adding the "-e none" to the command line arguments to tell openssh to make the session fully transparent. dbclient instead prints its version and quits because treats "-e" as a switch and "none" becomes the hostname.
I have two solutions: - a mini-invasive surgery (adds 0 bytes to the binary) to move the "case 'e'" in cli-runopts.c in the right spot so that -e can accept arguments still doing nothing and printing the warning message as before (see part 2), or - a full implementation of the -e argument adding 80 bytes of bloat :), in part 3. personally I like the bloated solution so "dbclient -e $'\x1d'" can bring back the handy '^]' I miss from the old telnet times where escapes were not printable. I hope you will review my second patch and include it upstream. Best regards,
