I think, rsh is quite obsolete
Horst H. von Brand
vonbrand at inf.utfsm.cl
Fri Nov 10 15:25:23 UTC 2006
Chris Adams <cmadams at hiwaay.net> wrote:
> Once upon a time, Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com> said:
> > 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.
> I have needed telnet-server a few times when trying to debug when
> connecting from network gear (no ssh in most). Also, where we allow
> shell access to web hosting customers, we still allow telnet (most of
> them are on Windows and it only includes a telnet client).
Tell them to use putty or some such SSH client for Windows.
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