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Date:      Wed, 25 Mar 2009 17:20:23 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ca>
To:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Telnet root login
Message-ID:  <alpine.OSX.2.00.0903251717180.28019@peregrin.local>
In-Reply-To: <49CAC8FE.5050708@elischer.org>
References:  <995845.90009.qm@web63905.mail.re1.yahoo.com> <E1LmSXe-000IqH-QM@clue.co.za> <49CA6754.4030302@elischer.org> <49CAC20E.3020602@telenix.org> <49CAC8FE.5050708@elischer.org>

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> Oh I know about SSH and keys but teh ability to pipe data into s tcp socket 
> and have it fed into another process is really useful in testing. and of 
> course no encryption overhead.

ssh cannot touch rsh for things like 'tar cf - . | rsh hostb tar xf -'.

On a private network this is a perfectly reasonable thing to do.

Less dogma and more engineering, please.

--lyndon

   The two most common elements in the universe are Hydrogen and stupidity.
   			-- Harlan Ellison



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