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Date:      Sat, 11 Jun 2005 09:42:18 +0200
From:      des@des.no (=?iso-8859-1?q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?=)
To:        Jacques Vidrine <nectar@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/net rcmd.3 src/libexec Makefile src/usr.sbin/inetd inetd.8 src/usr.sbin/rmt rmt.8 src/etc inetd.conf src/etc/pam.d Makefile rexecd src/libexec/rexecd Makefile rexecd.8 rexecd.c
Message-ID:  <86is0lpcf9.fsf@xps.des.no>
In-Reply-To: <200506102052.j5AKqa3Z000313@repoman.freebsd.org> (Jacques Vidrine's message of "Fri, 10 Jun 2005 20:52:36 %2B0000 (UTC)")
References:  <200506102052.j5AKqa3Z000313@repoman.freebsd.org>

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Jacques Vidrine <nectar@FreeBSD.org> writes:
>   Log:
>   Remove rexecd(8), a server that implements a particularly insecure
>   method of executing commands remotely.  There are no rexec clients in
>   the FreeBSD tree, and the client function rexec(3) is present only in
>   libcompat.  It has been documented as "obsolete" since 4.3BSD, and its
>   use has been discouraged in the man page for over 10 years.

Yay!

DES
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Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no




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