Re: Rsh for diagnostics? Has anyone changed this?

On Tue, Apr 30, 2002 at 10:05:31PM +0200, Peter wrote:
> Kashif Shaikh writes:
>  > Hello again everyone,
> 
> hello,
> 
>  > 
>  > The perl-script diagnostics(in /usr/lib/failsafe/diags) need to use 
>  > rsh...this doesn't make sense as you don't want something to be "Highly 
>  > Available" to also be "Highly Insecure":)
>  > 
>  > So, has anyone changed the scripts to use ssh instead?  I'm pretty sure 
>  > someone out here has changed this(or has ignored the diags altogether). 
>  > If so, can you please post your diffs?
>  > 
> 
> I don't think that there is any need to change the scripts, since
> ssh, scp and slogin are replacements for the "r"-commands.  By
> installing ssh the accordings "r"-commands are just symbolic links to
> the appropiate "s"-replacements.  So when the diag-scripts call
> rcp, they really call scp.
> /usr/bin/rcp -> /usr/bin/scp
> /usr/bin/rsh -> /usr/bin/ssh
> /usr/bin/rlogin -> /usr/bin/slogin

While it is true that ssh and friends are replacements for rsh and
freinds, it is often the case that a system needs to have
both sets of commands installed for one reason or another. I think
there would be a value in specifying which set of commands to
use, rather than relying on symlinks.

-- 
Horms