in reply to Rsh dies with EADDRINUSE

/me looks at calendar, sees 2007.

"Rsh"? Really, "rsh"?

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Re^2: Rsh dies with EADDRINUSE
by shandor (Monk) on Mar 01, 2007 at 20:22 UTC
    rsh seems to be very popular in the large corporate environment. After my first aneurysm, I decided to ignore that word (and all the glorious security concerns that follow) and pretend that the world is a happy, loving place.

      It's popular until you have a wave (wave? gaggle? plague? scourge?) of SOX auditors come through. Then it's persona non grata (much like the auditors . . . :).

Re^2: Rsh dies with EADDRINUSE
by bluto (Curate) on Mar 01, 2007 at 20:15 UTC
    Get out your platform shoes. I know people that use rsh to fire up processes on trusted remote machines this way (e.g. think 1000s of machines connected on a private network). It gets around some authentication overhead, encryption, and having to set things up in something like inetd on each machine (esp if you aren't the admin and politics rule). Sadly, since scaling configuration and performance does become an issue to them, using rsh becomes a very tempting, easy way...