Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 13:50:02 -0700 From: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group <Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca> To: Will Andrews <will@physics.purdue.edu> Cc: Daniel Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com>, Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Rsh/Rlogin/Rcmd & friends Message-ID: <200009152050.e8FKojS25996@cwsys.cwsent.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 15 Sep 2000 15:36:02 CDT." <20000915153602.S40658@radon.gryphonsoft.com>
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In message <20000915153602.S40658@radon.gryphonsoft.com>, Will Andrews writes: > On Fri, Sep 15, 2000 at 04:24:23PM -0400, Daniel Eischen wrote: > > > What consequences? Remember, we'll still have ports for these things. > > > It only matters as far as new installations go. Post-install operations > > > are unimportant. > > > > Wrong. If that were true tcsh wouldn't be in the base system today. > > You misinterpreted me. I meant in this specific case, post-install > operation doesn't matter. People can use ssh to get in the machines to > do things rsh/rlogin/rcmd offer. They can also use ssh to get to machines to do things that telnet (IMO similar function as rlogin). Sftp can be used to replace ftp. Not including telnet and ftp in this discussion is inconsistent. Regards, Phone: (250)387-8437 Cy Schubert Fax: (250)387-5766 Team Leader, Sun/DEC Team Internet: Cy.Schubert@osg.gov.bc.ca Open Systems Group, ITSD, ISTA Province of BC To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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