rsh, rlogin, rcp question

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Author: Kevin Buettner
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Subject: rsh, rlogin, rcp question
On Jul 27, 1:27pm, Bill Warner wrote:

> we use the rsh stuff quite a lot here in our local network.
> it is sectioned off from the outside and a cracker could
> probably do us a lot of damage if they got in through our
> fire wall or were a disgruntled employee or some such
> but as for right now we are dependent on them for lots
> of scripts and such.
>
> to the question. We have a mix of SCO, HP-UX, and
> Linux here, mostly SCO of which we use rcmd for
> remote execution of commands. This does not exist
> in Linux and I was wondering what the equivalent would
> be. basically just execute a command remotely and have the
> output displayed local.


Is this a trick question? You obviously know about rsh. Why
won't rsh work for you?

Kevin