OT: Help with 'rlogin'

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 10:31:45AM -0700, Bill Campbell wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 23, 2005, Tom Pancero wrote:
> >WAY off topic,
> >
> >I am upgrading a machine from Red Hat 8 to Fedora and I need some
> >guidance in setting up rlogin.  If anyone can help please contact me off
> >list.
> 
> I would strongly recommend using the secure shell program, slogin, instead
> of rlogin.  The Berkeley ``r'' commands are notoriously insecure.

Or alternatively, ssh, which passes enough environment these days to be
useful (not that it ever didn't).

Can you expand a bit on what you're doing with it, if it's anything
unusual?

Cheers,
-- jra
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