I think, rsh is quite obsolete

Dmitry Butskoy buc at odusz.so-cdu.ru
Thu Nov 9 13:00:47 UTC 2006


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??
>  
>
The "krb5-workstation" package has rsh with kerberos support. That way 
it is possible to provide secure auth and even traffic encryption (rsh 
-x). A lot of currently used UN*Xes have no ssh, but have rsh/rlogin and 
friends with kerberos support.


Dmitry Butskoy




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