Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2000 00:26:54 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> To: Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ab.ca> Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Rsh/Rlogin/Rcmd & friends Message-ID: <200009160626.AAA11742@harmony.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 16 Sep 2000 00:14:51 MDT." <200009160614.e8G6EqZ89121@orthanc.ab.ca> References: <200009160614.e8G6EqZ89121@orthanc.ab.ca>
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In message <200009160614.e8G6EqZ89121@orthanc.ab.ca> Lyndon Nerenberg writes: : These patches fix the (binary ONLY) dump commands on: : : Linux : AIX : HP/UX : Tru 64 : Solaris : IRIX : : ? No. They just allow one to specify an alternative transport. It allows for easy secure transport for remote dumps. I don't see it as a reason to remove rsh/rshd, but do admit that it would be one step closer to that. There's a lot of reasons to move towards this, but we're not close to being there yet. : (Un)fortunately, the entire universe does not (yet) run FreeBSD. Me, I : have to do a lot of backups with rsh. I know. that's why at the very least we should have the ability to install rsh. I'm not sure that eliminating rsh, rlogin and telnet are a desriable thing, but at the same time I'd like to see them die. ftp is used for anonymous ftp, so it should likely remain. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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