From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 11:04:36 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Ensure that SSH runs in non-interactive mode
Message-ID: <20080721110436.GA8395@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0807211255010.3305@eeepc-johanness>

On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 12:56:14PM +0200, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

> > or syntax used in RPM spec macros
> > 
> >   %{?p:-P %p}
> > 
> > (and there is complementing %{!?<var>:<expansion>} in RPM spec macro
> > language).
> 
> Yes, this is overkill.  I would even have passed the port argument 
> _always_, since the port 22 for ssh is as likely to change as hell will 
> not freeze over.  Actually, I am not so sure about the latter.

But keep in mind that "-p 22" on the command line _overrides_ what the
user has in their ssh config, so it is not a good idea to pass it all
the time.

-Peff