On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 03:12:09PM +0200, Guillaume Rousse wrote:
: Le Jeudi 3 Octobre 2002 14:20, Jerry A! a �crit :
: > It's not encouraging. It's a strongarm tactic. Unfortunately, you get
: > into the issue that in a heterogeneous environment, you need
: > compatibility. There are plenty of applications out there from some big
: > vendors (as well as crap written in house), that don't support SSH.
: telnet-kerberos is still present, client and server.
: Moreover, telnet is very useful for checking network services.
But rsh isn't. How am I suppossed to integrate a Mandrake server into
my PowerPassword cluster? What about installing Veritas NetBackup
licenses? The list goes on-and-on.
I can understand dumping the daemons, but the client's still have a very
necessary place.
--Jerry
Open-Source software isn't a matter of life or death...
...It's much more important than that!
