I think, rsh is quite obsolete
Andreas Thienemann
andreas at bawue.net
Wed Nov 8 12:10:38 UTC 2006
On Wed, 8 Nov 2006, Dumitru Ciobarcianu wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-11-08 at 11:50 +0100, Adam Tkac wrote:
>> I think, It's no argument to include rsh in next versions of fc/rhel.
>> OpenSSH could successfully substitute this component. SSH is more secure
>> than rsh and has all features of rsh. Do you think anything else??
>
> Some of us use rsh to connect to ancient equipements who don't know
> better (or we can't really change the firmware).
Or the hardware connects to our machines.
We've got a pool of dial-in servers from Livingston. They do ppp
internally, but as soon as someone requests a uucp connection, the user is
logged into the uucp server via rlogin.
The portmaster is never going to support openssh.
regards,
Andreas
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