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From: gamiddleton@orchid.UUCP
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Subject: Re: aliases in .rhosts
Message-ID: <11775@orchid.waterloo.edu>
Date: Fri, 20-Nov-87 19:24:30 EST
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Posted: Fri Nov 20 19:24:30 1987
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In article <21825@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> bostic@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU (Keith Bostic) writes:
> The resolver cannot return a complete alias list because the information
> is no longer available in a single place, e.g. all of the aliases may not
> even be present on a single machine.  Aliases are much more important on
> the command line; as we're talking about setting up a file, once, it doesn't
> seem unreasonable for the user to be required to enter the complete name.

This isn't for users, but for local software maintenance.  We have a single
machine copying software to many other machines.  Each of these other
machines has a /.rhosts entry for the source machine.  Unfortunately, the
source machine has moved once already, and is likely to move again.  Having
an alias would be much easier to manage than going through each machine by
hand.