Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 08:58:43 +0100 From: Simon Dick <simond@irrelevant.org> To: Carl Schmidt <cschmidt@slackerbsd.org> Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/bin Makefile src/share/examples/etc make.conf src/usr.bin Makefile Message-ID: <20020410075843.GB2686@irrelevant.org> In-Reply-To: <20020410035825.GA7883@carbon.slackerbsd.org> References: <20020410025230.GA8927@roughtrade.net> <200204100318.g3A3IXOF013706@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> <20020410035825.GA7883@carbon.slackerbsd.org>
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On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 11:58:26PM -0400, Carl Schmidt wrote: > On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 04:18:33AM +0100, Brian Somers wrote: > > > I don't know how standard the practise is, but part of my standard > > > server-hardening procedure is to remove the rsh/rcp tools. I don't > > > allow my users to even think about risking their use: they have > > > been fully superseded in functionality in every way by ssh. I would > > [.....] > > > > I think ssh needs a ``-c none'' option before it can claim to have > > superseded rsh. Until then, ssh isn't the right tool to transfer > > across a fast, trusted network. > > Perhaps it is just -current but: > > oxygen# rsh -c > rsh: illegal option -- c > oxygen# rcp -c > rcp: illegal option -- c > > The one machine i have running -stable does not have the 'r' tools installed > so I can't test but I do have the manual pages for each command and neither > rcp nor rsh have this "-c" option documented. Could you explain what it is > supposed to do? I believe he is talking about the ssh -c option which allows you to select what cipher you want to use, he wanted -c none to specify that all that was needed was to send the data across the network when it's not required to encrypt it, which would mean less load on each machine and possibly faster transfers. -- Simon Dick simond@irrelevant.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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