Re: FC5 and rlogin/rsh/rcp

On Fri, 31 Mar 2006 16:06:53 +1200, Jeffrey Ross wrote:

I'm upgrading from RH8 to FC5 and have installed "Servers/LeacyNetwork"
because this explicitly includes rlogin, telnet, etc, but rlogind wasn't
installed. Yes, I know they're not secure, but that's not a concern in my
environment - I'm certainly not going to allow Linux on a workstation to
dictate the login program used on the non-Linux servers and their
applications on our isolated network. I say this to avoid wasting the time
of security-crazed newsgroup posters - please don't bother. ;-)

You're swimming against the tide, the legacy servers have all been
replaced by ssh. SSH does everything the old rlogin, rexec, telnet, and
rsh servers did and a lot more. It's installed by default on every Linux,
BSD and Unix distribution and it's available for Windows (Cygwin is the
easiest way to install it but there are stand alone versions for Windows
also). SSH is very easy to use and to administer, I use the ssh module in
webmin, http://www.webmin.com, to administer my ssh setups because the
webmin module is so clear and easy to use.

You can certainly go through the trouble of enabling the legacy servers on
FC5 but you are going to have to set them up again on every new system and
every time you do a clean install. With ssh it will always be there by
default. In the long run you'll have to do a lot less work if you use ssh
instead of sticking with the obsolete servers.

Once you switch to SSH the advantages will become immediately clear. The
most obvious advantage is that you can access any of your machines over
the Internet just like they were on you LAN.


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