openssh unix dev - Apr 2001 - hostname as static link

I'm in the process of installing OpenSSH-2.5.1p1 on a cluster of
machines.  One of the aspects of a previous (non-OpenSSH) version of
ssh that I had been using was its ability to tolerate soft links to
it.  Thus, one could set up

# ln -s /usr/bin/ssh /usr/local/bin/machine

and thereafter type just 'machine' to connect to that host.  This
version of OpenSSH doesn't appear to accept that kind of set up.
FWIW, a context diff(1) of the change I made to ssh.c is appended.

-- Joseph

*** ssh.old.c   Mon Feb 19 05:51:08 2001
--- ssh.c       Mon Apr 30 08:38:33 2001
***************
*** 498,505 ****
        }
  
        /* Check that we got a host name. */
        if (!host)
!               usage();
  
        SSLeay_add_all_algorithms();
        ERR_load_crypto_strings();
--- 499,512 ----
        }
  
        /* Check that we got a host name. */
+       /* TJWL */
        if (!host)
!         {
!           if ( strcmp(av[0], "ssh") == 0 )
!             usage();
!           else
!             host = av[0];
!         }
  
        SSLeay_add_all_algorithms();
        ERR_load_crypto_strings();


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