Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 13:59:53 -0700 From: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group <Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca> To: Hajimu UMEMOTO <ume@mahoroba.org> Cc: will@physics.purdue.edu, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Rsh/Rlogin/Rcmd & friends Message-ID: <200009152100.e8FL0ne26068@cwsys.cwsent.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 16 Sep 2000 05:52:25 %2B0900." <20000916055225C.ume@mahoroba.org>
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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
Province of BC
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