I think, rsh is quite obsolete

Chris Adams cmadams at hiwaay.net
Thu Nov 9 02:42:14 UTC 2006


Once upon a time, Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com> said:
> On Wed, Nov 08, 2006 at 08:02:12PM -0600, Chris Adams wrote:
>  > Once upon a time, Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com> said:
>  > > But for Fedora, I can't think of a valid reason why someone would want
>  > > to enable a telnetd given the security concerns of non encrypted sessions.
>  > 
>  > For some setups, encryption is not a concern.  Besides, FTP, POP3, IMAP,
>  > etc. are still included.
> 
> These can be wrapped with SSL.

Telnet and rsh can be used over networks that are secured in other ways.
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Chris Adams <cmadams at hiwaay.net>
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