bzr doesn't support lsh...

Alfred M. Szmidt ams at gnu.org
Mon May 11 07:41:45 BST 2009


   Does 'lsh' take the same arguments as other SSH implementations?

In many cases, it does (lsh -l USER -p PORT HOST COMMAND), in some it
doesn't (like the -oFOO=VAL options).

   Anyway, because of that, we need to know the specific program to
   run, so that we know what arguments to supply to that, as all "SSH"
   implementations are not equal.

I think all remote shell implementations (atleast since rsh) are equal
in the regard that they always take `-l USER' (rsh does not have a
option for the specifying the port).  Would it be possible to make bzr
behave similiary?

That way, anything that implements the basic rsh interface (rsh HOST
and rsh -l USER HOST) would work with bzr without having to hack bzr,
you can still suply the port number by passing it through the BZR_SSH
enviromental variable.

For example, today, like with lsh, it is not possible to use GNU rsh
(which is still common when using Kerberos) with bzr, and I suspect
that given enough time you will have more programs as well.

Thank you!



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