I think, rsh is quite obsolete

[Pete Zaitcev]

On Wed, 8 Nov 2006 20:53:24 -0500, Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com> wrote:

> I assume you meant -c blowfish above, as -o doesn't seem too happy.

I dunno why I typed that. Yes, of course it's -c

> Oddly, -o blowfish is faster than the default.

Now you're doing it :-)

> Copying over a 100Mbit LAN, I get a 7MB/s by default, and 8MB/s with blowfish.

I get about the same picture here, and yes, the default cipher is slower.

> 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.

There's one niche application: running s390 installs. Without telnet,
you have to edit your .ssh/known_hosts all the time. It's quite annoying.
Although I don't understand why we can't just launch a vnc server.

-- Pete