Re: ssh options

Joerg Schilling <[email protected]> Fri, 13 Jan 2006 17:58:32 +0100

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.archivers.star.user
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"Rob Shepherd" <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> > This will not work as there is no parser in librmt
> > and as for security reasons the command is not run via
> > system() but via popen().
> >
> > But of course, you may always create a shell script
> >
> > #!/bin/sh
> > exec /usr/bin/ssh -i <key>
> >
> > that you use....
> >
> > Jörg
>
>
> I tried this first, however after some experimentation, I find my script
> needed to be
>
> exec /usr/bin/ssh -i <key> $*

This is of course wrong....

$* is wrong in 99.999% of all cases.

use "$@" instead.

Jörg

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