Tobias Roppelt wrote:
>
> Hi hatters!
>
> A few days ago I compiled openssh. It complained about not having rsh
> installed. So I reinstalled rsh and everything went fine.
> (Of course, after installing openssh I removed rsh.)
>
> Now I'm wondering why openssh needs rsh to be installed in order to compile
> (as openssh is sort of a replacement for rsh, isn't it?).
> Any ideas? Thanx.
>
It likely has something to do with the fact that ssh will attempt to
use rsh if ssh is refused. Ssh is command line compatible with rsh.
This allows you to simply alias rsh to ssh for all your old scripts, and
so forth.
PS- I can compile ssh after deleting /usr/bin/rsh no problem?
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