I think, rsh is quite obsolete

[Andreas Thienemann]

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