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Re:FreeBSD deprecates all r-cmds (rcp, rlogin, etc.) by arca_vorago on Tuesday July 04, 2017 @10:22PM (#14699605)
Well they may not have technically predated then but what I meant is that as far as I know for a while r(etc) was used and then was generally replaced in actual usage by telnet, etc.
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Re:FreeBSD deprecates all r-cmds (rcp, rlogin, etc.) by tyingq on Tuesday July 04, 2017 @11:28PM (#14699802)
It was the other way around. Rsh and rlogin appeared well after telnet, and displaced some telnet use because they were able to do password-free connections via .rhosts
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Re:FreeBSD deprecates all r-cmds (rcp, rlogin, etc.) by mrkrab on Wednesday July 05, 2017 @03:16AM (#14700458)
Oh yes that file. The good old days when you would use social engineering on irc to have yourself added to your victim's .rhosts
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