On Fri, 6 May 2005 16:37:29 -0700
Shaw Vrana wrote:
> On Friday 06 May 2005 03:31 pm, Robert G. Hays wrote:
> > A. Khattri wrote:
> > >Security.
> >
> > BELIEVE THIS !! -- sorry for shouting, but I for one wonder whyinhell
> > Gentoo of all distros would even bother with rlogin... ("About Choice",
> > of course. This is called 'the dark side of the...'[choice]
>
> rlogin might not be right for you, but it's just fine for my needs. Please
> don't try to force *your* security requirements on other people. :P
>
> Shaw
Shaw i sometimes think that rlogin rsh rcp might be better to use on my
well firewalled LAN because basically there is no one there to sniff my
passwords or data, and why burden my machines with encryptng and
unencrypting the traffic.
Then i see the sense of not getting into bad habits, of making my
scripts safe to use across the internet in case I ever want to use them
beyond the lan, and maintaining only openssh instead of openssh and rsh,
and I abandon the thought as an idle fancying.
If you are a newbie and read somewhere that rsh and friends is a good
way of doing stuff across a lan, then read something more up to date and
forget it. If you know what you are doing and know the security
implications of your actions (and can stand the criticisms of others )
then go for it.
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