AIX SSH 2.x ssh and /etc/ftpusers rcp rlogin WRONG !

[Gert Doering]

Hi,

On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 08:35:17AM +0200, mark.pitt at ch.ibm.com wrote:
> IF ssh is a replacement for rlogin,rsh etc I can accept it respecting
> rlogin=false as rlogin does and rsh does not, however scp is a replacement
> for rcp, and rcp does NOT use rlogin attribute, so the implementation is
> NOT standard as scp fails if rlogin=false, but rcp succeeds, as documented.

Sounds like a design deficiency in AIX, actually.  What good is
disallowing rlogin if you do not also disallow rsh?

I think ssh should be consistant here - either "permit remote access to
AIX box", or "not at all".

gert

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