> From: Herr Christian Wolfgang Hujer
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> I use ssh instead of rsh because
> a) the connection is encrypted
> b) Authentication can be done on a Private Key / Public Key
> basis, which I
> consider much more secure than .rhosts at rsh.
> When using key authentication (using ssh-keygen and
> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys) it
> is not neccessary to type in the password (same as with
> pserver and login,
> but more secure for the connection).
Don't forget:
c) ssh is universally interoperable - rsh is not. There are systems, even OS
versions, that do not interopertae over rsh.
> I have also heard that it's possible to tunnel pserver
> through ssh or http or
> https, but I do not know wether that is really possible, even
> less I know how
> to configure that.
It's possible. I don't have the instructions handy, either.
/|/|ike
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