On Mon, Jul 08, 2002 at 02:18:03PM -0700, Chuck Yerkes wrote:
> Quoting Wolfgang Rupprecht (wolfgang+gnus20020708T140121@wsrcc.com):
> > 
> > > 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.
> > 
> > What do those folks do for cron-based rdist-ing of files from their
> > main server to the other machines on their net?
> > 
> > One of the biggest labor-saving cron tasks here is a weekly rdist that
> > makes sure that everything but a handful of conf files are exactly the
> > same on all the machines.  Who wants to maintain N systems by hand?
> 
> You use ssh.  And if you have rsh working without a password,
> you get ssh to work without a password.
> 
> Either with .rhosts/.shosts or with keys for better auth.
> It's really not hard.  I do it all the time.  I put ssh in
> and rename it rsh and my users often never know.
> 
> Why is it so hard for you to understand?

Because it doesn't work?

Patrick