FC5 and rlogin/rsh/rcp

I'm upgrading from RH8 to Fedora Core 5 and customised it during the
installation to include Servers/LegacyNetwork to get rlogin, etc. This
didn't include rlogind (which would be useful for a "server" because that's
what's needed to log in to the box). So I hunted through the FC5 CDs and
found CD#5 /RPMS/rsh-server-0.17-34.1.i386.rpm which did the rick. Almost.
I then found that I was missing xinetd, so I located that on CD#3
Fedora/RPMS/xinetd-2.3.13-6.2.1.i386.rpm, which was a relief. But not
quite. It seems that xinetd isn't started at boot time, so I did that
manually and will have to add it to /etc/rc2.d in time. I modified
/etc/xinetd.d/rlogin to comment out the disable line and I was able to log
in to the box. (I had previously created /etc/securetty containing rsh,
rlogin, pts/0, pts1,.., tty0, tty1,.. each on a separate line.)
Have I missed some easier way of doing this? Perhaps we will all be forced
to use klogind or sshd after a few more releases. I really don't want to do
that because I've got a closed network running Unix and I want to log into
the new workstation that I've bought and set up with a current Linux
disribution. I don't want its default security to force a change on the
rest of the system, which would require a considerable effort.



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