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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. A very dumb idea by boltar · · Score: 2, Troll

    No one in their right mind would use one of the
    r* tools or telnet to access a box across the
    internet. However , for internal connections withing a large organisation they are *vital*.
    Anyone who has worked in a large unix shop (I work in a multinational bank) knows that rlogin
    and telnet are used all the time to access the various servers over the LAN and VPN , rsh is also
    used to do a shell script type of RPC. Getting rid of these tools demonstrates what I've always
    thought about OpenBSD , its just a toy to amuse
    Theo thats not really aiming at the high end market but rather just as a web server or other
    ISP type role. Fine , if thats what they want but
    it'll hardly make much difference as their user base is so small it hardly registers anyway.
    Bye bye OpenBSD.