I think, rsh is quite obsolete

Karel Zak kzak at redhat.com
Mon Nov 13 23:25:19 UTC 2006


On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 03:01:50PM -0600, Steven Pritchard wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 11:38:24AM -0800, Florin Andrei wrote:
> > Leave the cleartext protocols alone, they're good tools if you know what 
> > you are doing.
> 
> I don't think anyone would argue that about telnet (well, other than
> it not being 8-bit clean), but have you ever really looked at rsh?
> It's just *evil*.  Authentication is implemented entirely client-side.
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 Do you mean PAM code on server-side, right? :-)

    Karel

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