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r* Programs Being Removed from OpenBSD -current

Posted by timothy on from the but-it's-still-an-important-letter dept.

moonboy writes: "This post over at OpenBSD Journal tells of the r* programs (rsh, rlogin, rcopy, etc) being removed from the -current tree. Can Telnet and FTP be far behind? I say good riddance."

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  1. Re:BSD is not dying, it's busy cleaning by cperciva · · Score: 3, Flamebait

    FTP is a fine way to serve files to anonymous clients.

    No it isn't. FTP, with its separate control and data connections, made sense fifteen years ago; but now it causes terrible headaches for network and firewall administrators. In addition, FTP doesn't have any standardized mechanism for name-based hosting.

    As far as I can see, there is no excuse for using FTP any longer, for any purpose.

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