> It would also ease confusion as everybody begins to think "r* means
> bad security".
I think this argument is a little weak. There are 143 commands
starting with r on my system. Only 2 or 3 of them suffer from the rsh
style security problems.
I don't think anyone is going to abandon rm and route anytime soon :)
> After all, consider that "r* means `remote'" is generally true
I'm rather skeptical about this as well. It is true of rsync, but is
not generally applicable.
btw, I still think rsh is a completely appropriate program to use in
some situations. It is certainly makes much more efficient use of
network bandwidth than ssh does. I use ssh everywhere largely because
it is so convenient. A lot of the time when I use it I could use rsh
without any security implications, but I don't because rsh doesn't
offer things like auto X forwarding.
I also know that quite a few people do use rsync over rsh as we got a
pile of bug reports when I broke rsync/rsh on Solaris with the first
non-blocking patch. We certainly must offer an easy way to get the
current behaviour.
Cheers, Tridge
