ssh and rsh used to cause you to rsh/ssh to the name of the file... so I had, in my home directory ~me/bin/snoopy and if I wanted to log into snoopy, I'd jus

ssh and rsh used to cause you to rsh/ssh to the name of the file... so I had, in my home directory ~me/bin/snoopy and if I wanted to log into snoopy, I'd just type $ snoopy and it'd rsh me into snoopy. Hilarity was the day when someone ran cd /export/home && for user in * ; do chown -R $user:users ; done (note the lack of the -h flag, which causes the ownership of the symbolic link instead of the reference of the symbolic link to be chowned)