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Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 07:07:23 -0800
From: David Rothenberger <daveroth AT acm DOT org>
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Subject: Re: 2004-Feb-17 snapshot change ssh option parsing behavior
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Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Feb 17 16:46, David Rothenberger wrote:
> 
>>Robert Collins wrote:
>>
>>>you may find that 
>>>ssh somehost -- bin/bash --login -c date
>>>also works.
>>
>>In fact, I did, and mentioned that in my first email.  Unfortunately, I 
>>use this with some old Solaris boxes, which require "-login" instead of 
>>"--login", and
>>
>>  ssh somehost -- /bin/bash -login -c date
>>
>>does not work, for some reason.
> 
> 
> Huh?  It does for me.

I just tried it again and it definitely does not work for me.  The key is 
to use "-login" and not "--login".  My cygcheck output is attached to the 
initial report if you're interested.  I'm now running the latest CVS, not 
the snapshot, though.

Dave


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