On 03/05/15 13:21, Slawa Olhovchenkov wrote:
On Thu, Mar 05, 2015 at 02:48:29PM +0300, Gleb Smirnoff wrote:
On Wed, Mar 04, 2015 at 10:01:45PM +0000, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
B> Author: bapt
B> Date: Wed Mar 4 22:01:44 2015
B> New Revision: 279603
B> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/279603
B>
B> Log:
B> r* commands are not precious anymore
B>
B> Modified:
B> head/bin/rcp/Makefile
B> head/usr.bin/rlogin/Makefile
I guess when they are going to be not precious enough to be removed? :)
In modern world of ssh and https, does any OS require them in base?
yes.
Some telecom equipment require rlogin.
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Considering that the r-commands are not particularly large and also not
really a maintenance nightmare, a would just keep them. They are (still)
more or less part of the standard Unix toolbox, as perceived by
end-users, and you had better not make life too difficult for them. The
same is true for telnet.
I see these tools in use regularly, e.g. to control measurement
equipment programmatically. Due to the price tag of those instruments,
that won't change overnight. The usage is limited to a LAN however,
nobody I know uses these tools over the public Internet anymore.
As far as I know only OpenBSD got rid of these tools up to now. Most
other Unix(-like) systems still have them.
And if they absolutely have to go, what happens to the corresponding
daemons in /usr/libexec (rshd and rlogind)?
Regards,
Hans
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