On 29 Dec 1998, Niels [ISO-8859-1] Möller wrote:
[snipped part about CLI]
> Command mode.
>
> ssh has a somewhat limited functionality attached to its escape
> character, by default a new-line preceeded '~'. I think it would be
> nice if this was expanded into a command mode. From command mode, it
> should be possible to monitor the connection, forward new ports, close
> channels, stop forwarding ports, request key renegotiation, etc.
that's a really cool idea. and emphasizing that one has to press enter
before the escape character should really be needed. (I didn't know this
existed until I began working on lsh) But a command-mode would be even
more useful.
> Shell mode
:-) at the end lsh would incorporate the whole user-space part of the OS,
one would only need to use lsh and nothing else. Introducing our own
executable format, our lsh-script language (resembling to scheme, perl and
shell-script just to name a few obscucated languages).
So back to reality, the idea of creating a liblsh.so, and exporting secsh
interfaces to other programs is not a bad idea, but should be developed
when all the other components are ready.
--- Bazsi
