On Fri, 28 Jul 2000, der.hans wrote:
> Am 27. Jul, 2000 schwäzte Mike Cantrell so:
>
> > SCO doesn't have rsh the way we think of it (it uses rcmd instead). rsh in
> > SCO is a restricted shell (ugh... sucks huh?). That's probably the cause
> > of the confusion.
> >
> > The real answer is that you shouldn't be using rcmd's or rsh. You should
>
> What's rcmd? Is it doing the rsh thing? On at least one other OS where rsh
> was restricted shell there was remsh, which was doing the rsh thing, e.g.
>
It appears to be exactly the same as rsh on every other unix but just
names differently since they decided to reserver the name rsh for
restricted shell. It works on the same port, has the same usage, etc.
> > go get openssh or secure shell and starting using ssh and scp's instead
> > (since you're concerned about security).
>
> That, of course, is the better option. Are any of the sshes on SCO?
>
> ciao,
>
Nothing comes installed of course but ssh1 compiles fine. I havn't been
able to get ssh2 to compile at all on SCO. I havn't tried openssh
yet. Sounds like a project for today :)
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Regards,
Mike Cantrell
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