Re: rlogin yes, telnet no ?!

Ed Carp, KHIJOL SysAdmin (erc@dal1820.computek.net)
Wed, 31 Jan 1996 07:23:21 -0600 (CST)

> It would be a good feature for masquerade to preserve privileged ports (or not - make it configurable).
> rlogin and rlogind use the privileged ports for "security" and stuff like .rhosts. It's not secure
> at all though.

That's why I use SOCKS and ssh. I don't even bother with masquerade -
it's not worth the hassle, and SOCKS is much easier to set up.

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