From: Henrik.Carlqvist@deadspam.com   
      
   On Thu, 31 Mar 2022 07:51:56 +0000, David Chmelik wrote:   
   > one FreeBSD user falsely claimed rsh/rlogin is deprecated.   
      
   In one way, I would say that FreeBSD user is right. By default most   
   installations have rsh, rlogin and telnet services disabled and instead   
   assume all users use ssh which does not send passwords in clear text over   
   networks where someone might be listening with something like tcpdump or   
   wireshark.   
      
   Yes, as ssh does encrypt the traffic it will give some CPU overhead, but   
   will your usage really generate that much traffic? It is possible to   
   tunnel X traffic through ssh and that mighte give a lot of traffic if you   
   are watching some kind of live video application, but on the other hand,   
   you can also choose not to tunnel X through ssh and use the good old   
   DISPLAY setting and xhost +something assuming that your X server is   
   configured to allow tcp connections.   
      
   I have not yet tried Slackware 15 myself and also not tried PAM. Once I   
   get to Slackware 15 I will probably leave the default settings with   
   disabled rsh/rlogin/telnet servers. I hope that you will find out how to   
   configure PAM to work with these servers, but if not, I hope that ssh   
   together with private and public keys will work good enough.   
      
   regards Henrik   
      
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