Future of rlogin and friends in current?

Bob Willcox bob at immure.com
Wed Oct 18 20:18:20 UTC 2017


On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 02:01:43PM -0500, Kyle Evans wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 10:24 AM, Bob Willcox <bob at immure.com> 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.
> >
> 
> These have been made available in ports as net/bsdrcmds (
> https://www.freshports.org/net/bsdrcmds/)

Great! Thanks for the info Kyle. I figured that this would likely be the case
but didn't know where to look for them.

Bob

> 
> 
> 
> > Bob
> >
> 
> Kyle Evans

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