Re: r commands

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Aleph One says:
>   Well guess i'll just pitch in my two cents in. If you dont allow
> users to set up their own .rhosts files, or you dissable them
> compleately. Then you loose what makes the r commands so wanted
> by people.... transparency. They like them because they dont have
> to type a user name and passwd to log into other machines. Now if
> this dissapears then rlogin is a beefed up telnet.

And at that point, you install the kerberos suite and they can use
rlogin if they are kinited and then you have security again.

Perry

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