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Re: rshd...



On Sun, 15 Jul 2012 11:15:49 +0300
Jukka Ruohonen <jruohonen%iki.fi@localhost> wrote:

> Supposedly even something like rsh can be secure to some extent if done
> via IPSec. But to accelerate: can anyone think of any use for phones(1) or
> few other relics residing firmly in /etc?

Probably only because of its relation to tip(1), which is still useful
for serial consoles.

Possible issues with moving rsh and friends (or tip) to pkgsrc might be
that they could more easily become unmaintained, and their
cross-compilation could become harder...
-- 
Matt


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