Future of rlogin and friends in current?

The Doctor doctor at doctor.nl2k.ab.ca
Wed Oct 18 18:54:17 UTC 2017


On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 10:24:37AM -0500, Bob Willcox wrote:
> I read somewhere (don't recall exactly where) here that the rlogin and related
> programs were to be dropped from release 12.0. Assuming this is true, is there
> any plans to create a port of these programs for those of us that still depend
> on them? I use rlogin to login to various systems within my internal local
> network (my firewall block outside access) and it will be a nuisance (and
> otherwise unnecessary) to have to switch over to using ssh.
>

Same here in case ssh is choking.  telnet port 23 is dead AFAIC for
many systems.

rlogin should be kept as a backup.

> Bob
> 
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