From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: [ITA] rsh-0.17-3
Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2018 09:16:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180716091644.GB7249@calimero.vinschen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87h8kzsgbv.fsf@Rainer.invalid>
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On Jul 16 11:03, Achim Gratz wrote:
> Takashi Yano writes:
> > I agree rlogin/rsh/rexec are outdated. However, most major Linux
> > and BSD distributions still provide them as a package.
> >
> > Should not Cygwin follow these as well?
>
> Even on the UN*X side the r-tools have been deprecated for so long it
> doesn't really make sense to use them anymore. The only sane way to use
> them is in fully isolated networks and I haven't seen any of those in
> decades. With Cygwin running on top of Windows there is ahole other set
> of issues to deal with and that makes it even more inappropriate to even
> offer those tools. IMHO, deferring to the security lead for Cygwin.
We have a security lead?
Corinna
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-07-16 9:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-07-15 19:55 Takashi Yano
2018-07-16 8:35 ` Achim Gratz
2018-07-16 8:49 ` Takashi Yano
2018-07-16 9:03 ` Achim Gratz
2018-07-16 9:16 ` Corinna Vinschen [this message]
2018-07-16 9:33 ` Corinna Vinschen
2018-07-16 13:54 ` cyg Simple
2018-07-16 14:02 ` Stephen John Smoogen
2018-07-16 14:22 ` cyg Simple
2018-07-16 15:09 ` Stephen John Smoogen
2018-07-16 15:29 ` Corinna Vinschen
2018-07-16 20:14 ` Brian Inglis
2018-07-16 16:06 ` Takashi Yano
2018-07-16 16:40 ` cyg Simple
2018-07-17 8:25 ` Corinna Vinschen
2018-07-19 11:32 ` Takashi Yano
2018-07-16 15:45 ` Achim Gratz
2018-07-17 8:27 ` Corinna Vinschen
2018-07-16 10:06 ` Achim Gratz
2018-07-16 10:22 ` Corinna Vinschen
2018-07-19 11:58 ` Takashi Yano
2018-07-26 18:45 ` Andrew Schulman
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