On Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 07:04:51PM -0800, John Nemeth wrote:
> On Jul 14,  3:58pm, Sean Davis wrote:
> } On Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 05:43:15PM -0800, Simon J. Gerraty wrote:
> } > 
> } > >     BTW, FreeBSD doesn't allow root to use rexecd.  Should we add that
> } > >as well?
> } > 
> } > Why allow it at all - it sends username/passwd in clear ?
> } 
> } So does rsh, and rsh is still quite useful on LANs for things like rdist, if
> } you can trust your physical connections.
> 
>      rsh doesn't send the password.  rshd just checks to make sure the
> connection is originating on a "privileged" port and assumes that the
> client isn't lying.

I stand corrected.

- Sean

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