Subject: Re: Policy questions
To: Bruce J.A. Nourish <bjan+tech-userlevel@bjan.net>
From: None <ragge@ludd.luth.se>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 12/29/2003 11:54:43
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>  * Have we considered removing r{sh,cmd,cp} from the base distribution?
> 
Eh, please, no.  They are only potential security holes if you use 
them wrong (there are other commands that also can cause problems)
and there exist lots of machines where ssh cannot be used as a 
replacement.

Also note that rdump/rrestore is still very useful :-)

-- Ragge