Re: mismatch in behaviour for rlogind and rshd

[Jeff Bailey]

On Wed, Sep 04, 2002 at 07:45:27PM +0200, Marc Duponcheel wrote:

> I have replaced my older netkit equivalents with the GNU inetutils.
> on Linux. I noticed one strange thing.

> I would expect that rsh and rlogin need to behave equal.

> In the code I don't see much difference so maybe there should be a
> routine both daemons share to veryfy hostnames in the local domain.

Thanks for the note.  Alot of code like this is being refactored into
shared libraries, but we haven't gotten there yet.  I'll look into
this one when I'm touching the rsh code next (probably in a week or
so.  My current pet project is inetd).

Tks,
Jeff Bailey

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