Package rsh-server: Information

Binary package: rsh-server

Version: 0.17-alt5.1

Architecture: x86_64

Build time:  Mar 16, 2018, 02:23 AM in the task #202030

Source package: rsh

Category: System/Servers

Gear: https://git.altlinux.org/srpms/r/rsh.git?a=tree;hb=0.17-alt5.1

Build log: https://git.altlinux.org/tasks/202030/build/100/x86_64/log

Home page: ftp://ftp.uk.linux.org/pub/linux/Networking/netkit/

License: BSD

Summary: Servers for remote access commands (rsh, rlogin, rcp)

Description: 

The rsh-server package contains a set of programs which allow users
to run commmands on remote machines, login to other machines and copy
files between machines (rsh, rlogin and rcp).  All three of these
commands use rhosts style authentication.  This package contains the
servers needed for all of these services.  It also contains a server
for rexec, an alternate method of executing remote commands.
All of these servers are run by xinetd and configured using
/etc/xinetd.d/ and PAM (but are disabled by default).

*** PLEASE NOTE ***

Most probably you don't want this package installed,
it's pretty hard to use it securely enough (or to provide
a trusted enough environment so it's not an issue).

One might be way better off using OpenSSH (probably with
shared connections configured to lower the new connection
setup latency) or maybe HPN-SSH.

To (hopefully) ensure that the sysadmin understands this,
the binaries are shipped with no execute permissions;
control(8) facility is provided to regulate those.

Maintainer: Igor Vlasenko