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Date:      Tue, 18 Apr 2000 11:22:27 -0500
From:      csg@waterspout.com (C. Stephen Gunn)
To:        Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
Cc:        freebsd-arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Outdated rdist in FreeBSD Base 
Message-ID:  <200004181622.LAA02964@dustdevil.waterspout.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 18 Apr 2000 10:07:39 CST." <200004181607.KAA91757@harmony.village.org> 

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On Tue, 18 Apr 2000 10:07:39 CST, Warner Losh wrote:

> In message <20000418092044.A2172@waterspout.com> "C. Stephen Gunn" writes:
> : > Agreed.  And I think there are still some security concerns with
> : > rdist.
> : 
> : Can you provide us with some specifics?
> 
> Beyond the big, huge gaping one of using the woefully insecure rcmd
> port, none come to mind at the moment.

Oh yeah.. That. <grin>

We run rdist over ssh, so we're not as worried about the rcmd
stuff after you add two key exchanges (one for the hosts, and 
one for the user).

 - Steve





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