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Reply-To: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group <Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca>
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To: Hajimu UMEMOTO <ume@mahoroba.org>
Cc: will@physics.purdue.edu, arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Rsh/Rlogin/Rcmd & friends 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 16 Sep 2000 05:52:25 +0900."
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In message <20000916055225C.ume@mahoroba.org>, Hajimu UMEMOTO writes:
> >>>>> On Fri, 15 Sep 2000 14:35:15 -0500
> >>>>> Will Andrews <will@physics.purdue.edu> said:
> 
> will> Ok people.  I want a reason why we shouldn't move rsh/rlogin/rcmd out o
> f
> will> the base system and into ports, now that we can support SSH connections
> will> out of the box.
> 
> Some programs call rsh.  For example, GNU tar calls rsh.
> How about this patch.  I'm using it for a long time.
> 
> --- gnu/usr.bin/tar/rtapelib.c.orig	Mon Nov  4 19:07:44 1996
> +++ gnu/usr.bin/tar/rtapelib.c	Tue Jul 27 15:22:32 1999
> @@ -372,6 +372,8 @@
>  
>        if (*login)
>  	{
> +	  execl ("/usr/bin/ssh", "ssh", "-l", login, system,
> +		 "/etc/rmt", (char *) 0);
>  	  execl ("/usr/bin/rsh", "rsh", "-l", login, system,
>  		 "/etc/rmt", (char *) 0);
>  	  execlp ("rsh", "rsh", "-l", login, system,
> @@ -379,6 +381,8 @@
>  	}
>        else
>  	{
> +	  execl ("/usr/bin/ssh", "ssh", system,
> +		 "/etc/rmt", (char *) 0);
>  	  execl ("/usr/bin/rsh", "rsh", system,
>  		 "/etc/rmt", (char *) 0);
>  	  execlp ("rsh", "rsh", system,

I would rather we remove rsh entirely.  If you want to use rsh install 
the GNU tar port.


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
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