From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Oct 13 15:15:46 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rpi.edu (mail.rpi.edu [128.113.100.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BFD1137B502 for ; Fri, 13 Oct 2000 15:15:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.acs.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by mail.rpi.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA554346; Fri, 13 Oct 2000 18:15:25 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <14823.28544.576629.49007@onceler.kciLink.com> References: <14823.28544.576629.49007@onceler.kciLink.com> Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 18:15:24 -0400 To: Vivek Khera , stable@FreeBSD.ORG From: Garance A Drosihn Subject: Re: turning off rcmd is premature Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 4:24 PM -0400 10/13/00, Vivek Khera wrote: >Earlier this week, the rcmd (rshd/rlogin) service was turned off by >default for new installs, and if you let mergemaster update your >config to the current "recommended" settings. > >I think this is premature. Just so you know, this change has been discussed on other freebsd mailing lists. (which is only to say that this wasn't a rash change which was rushed in without anyone noticing). I think it's fine to disable rcmd in default installs. If you need it for remote dumps, then enable it. No one is removing the service, it is just a matter of you having to turn it on. I agree that changing 'rmt' to work with openssh is a very good idea too. I doubt anyone would object to that happening! --- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or drosih@rpi.edu Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message