Re: [bug-inetutils] rcp: No libshishi support.

[Simon Josefsson]

Mats Erik Andersson <address@hidden> writes:

> Dear all,
>
> anyone for a well defined, finite task?
>
>   * Implement libshishi support in "src/rcp.c".
>
> or a step or two more complicated,
>
>   * Implement Kerberos5 support in "src/rcp.c".
>
> Presently on Kerberos4 is provided.

There is a re-implementation of rcp with Shishi support here:

http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/shishi.git/tree/extra/rsh-redone

Come to think of it, maybe it makes sense to move some of that into
InetUtils, the rcp code in InetUtils is quite crufty...

However, there is always the backwards compatibility issue to consider,
and without good regression testing it is difficult to know whether our
"rcp" works or not.  Since rcp is so rarely used today, I'm not sure
we'd get many bug reports about it...

/Simon