Rsh works one direction

[Roderick Ford]

Okay Darrin,
I do have a question for you.
Is rsh bad for security on an internal LAN if the members of the LAN are  
fully trusted?

The situation is this: I use ssh as my PVM_RSH already for the Linux  
boxes, but am trying to pull in the childrens' Windows (please excuse the  
bad language) boxes using PVM3.4.  So if my 5 year oldest child wants to  
hack into my internal boxes via the insecurities of RSH, then I will  
encourage him to do so at my expense, for his experience.  However, behind  
my firewall that gives me some sense of security, is rsh still a external  
network risk?

Rod


On Sat, 31 Dec 2005 12:00:05 -0700,  
<plug-discuss-request at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us> wrote:

> From: Darrin Chandler <dwchandler at stilyagin.com>
> Subject: Re: Rsh works one direction
> To: Main PLUG discussion list <plug-discuss at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
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> r.ford at cox.net wrote:
>
>> (oh, and please don't bother lecturing me on the security of rsh.  
>> thanks)
>>
>>
> Okay.
>