Am 18.04.2012 21:20, schrieb Eric Bélanger: > Hi, > > Currently, the inetutils packages provide the old unsecure r* family > of tools. There is currently a bug report [1] asking for the removal > of rexec as it it particularly unsecure. As these things are old and I > suppose everyone has moved to more secure apps like ssh/sftp, I'm > thinking about removing all these r* tools.
Just because they're insecure doesn't mean we shouldn't provide them. There are probably enough people that use this, and it is their choice. > Also, there is another bug report [2] about removing /bin/domainname. > This wrapper script is currently broken and users using NIS probably > already have yp-tools installed, which provides its own > /usr/bin/domainname. This will also fix a future conflict whenever > we'll get rid of /bin. +1 > /usr/bin/telnet > /usr/sbin/telnetd > > Any objections, comments? By the above argument, we should also remove telnetd.
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