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Lyndon Nerenberg wrote:
>> 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.

Wrong. You can do the same 'tar cf - . | ssh hostb tar xf -' just fine 
either over private network or over internets. With private key or 
client and public key on server it works just fine.

-Maxim