ssh is around for much more than 10 years. now you have to keep ssh compatible with ssh.
On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 12:59:45PM +0200, Lars Nooden wrote: > 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
