Subject: Re: automatic login
To: Chuck Yerkes <chuck+nbsd@snew.com>
From: Patrick Welche <prlw1@newn.cam.ac.uk>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 07/04/2002 15:23:44
On Wed, Jul 03, 2002 at 02:31:24PM -0700, Chuck Yerkes wrote:
> You REALLY don't want to use rsh/rlogin.  OpenBSD has now removed
> it from the tree; a decision I agree with entirely and encourage 
> elsewhere.
> 
> ssh is your friend and a fine replacement for rsh/rlogin for
> everyone except for the bad guys.

Have you got rdist to work with ssh? I tried and failed... (Should be
a small matter of setting RCMD_CMD to /usr/bin/ssh, but even though you
can see the rdist -Server process starting on the other machine, no bytes
go by. Works fine with rsh)

Patrick