From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Wed Oct 18 18:54:17 2017 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A193E414BA for ; Wed, 18 Oct 2017 18:54:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca) Received: from doctor.nl2k.ab.ca (doctor.nl2k.ab.ca [204.209.81.1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id DA02E65A2F for ; Wed, 18 Oct 2017 18:54:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca) Received: from doctor by doctor.nl2k.ab.ca with local (Exim 4.89 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1e4tTH-000DLT-JV; Wed, 18 Oct 2017 12:53:39 -0600 Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2017 12:53:39 -0600 From: The Doctor To: Bob Willcox Cc: questions list Subject: Re: Future of rlogin and friends in current? Message-ID: <20171018185339.GA51005@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca> References: <20171018152437.GA76938@rancor.immure.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20171018152437.GA76938@rancor.immure.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.9.1 (2017-09-22) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2017 18:54:17 -0000 On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 10:24:37AM -0500, Bob Willcox wrote: > I read somewhere (don't recall exactly where) here that the rlogin and related > programs were to be dropped from release 12.0. Assuming this is true, is there > any plans to create a port of these programs for those of us that still depend > on them? I use rlogin to login to various systems within my internal local > network (my firewall block outside access) and it will be a nuisance (and > otherwise unnecessary) to have to switch over to using ssh. > Same here in case ssh is choking. telnet port 23 is dead AFAIC for many systems. rlogin should be kept as a backup. > Bob > > -- > Bob Willcox | Lawsuit, n.: A machine which you go into as a pig and > bob@immure.com | come out as a sausage. > Austin, TX | -- Ambrose Bierce > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- Member - Liberal International This is doctor@@nl2k.ab.ca Ici doctor@@nl2k.ab.ca Yahweh, Queen & country!Never Satan President Republic!Beware AntiChrist rising! https://www.empire.kred/ROOTNK?t=94a1f39b Look at Psalms 14 and 53 on Atheism Talk Sense to a fool and he calls you foolish - Euripides