I think, rsh is quite obsolete

Peter Robinson pbrobinson at gmail.com
Thu Nov 9 07:44:52 UTC 2006


> On Wed, Nov 08, 2006 at 11:50:51AM +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??
>
> The rsh _client_ has its uses in legacy environments.
> The daemon, questionable.
> Likewise, why we still ship telnet-server in core is beyond me.

Telnet client is invaluable, server maybe not so much. Legacy Cisco
equipment and other networking gear makes some of the stuff useful but
when it comes to it none of it is enabled by default and its not like
they take up tens of megabytes on the installer CDs.

Peter




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