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> Oh I know about SSH and keys but teh ability to pipe data into s tcp socket 
> and have it fed into another process is really useful in testing. and of 
> course no encryption overhead.

ssh cannot touch rsh for things like 'tar cf - . | rsh hostb tar xf -'.

On a private network this is a perfectly reasonable thing to do.

Less dogma and more engineering, please.

--lyndon

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