[H-GEN] How safe is SSH on the internet?

[Jason Parker-Burlingham]

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Paul Gearon <pag at PISoftware.com> writes:

> On Mon, 30 Jun 2003, Stuart Longland wrote:
>> | Oh, and make sure all the rlogin legacy stuff is turned off.
>> Yes, I might use this over the LAN, but not on the internet.  I indend
>> to keep rsh, rlogin & friends well out of reach of the outside world.
> Are you sure you need them locally?
>
> SSH is a rather powerful little beast.  It seems to do everything.  The
> only time I've needed rsh, rlogin, etc, in recent times has been for some
> old Windows apps which need them (eXcursion, for instance).

There is one instance where SSH doesn't seem to have stepped up to the
plate:  I tried in vain a number of years ago to get the remote tape
interface working with SSH.  (This is when you want to set $TAPE to
point to a tape drive on another machine.)  I think it boiled down, in
the end, to getting rexec going.
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