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Re: rexecd disappeared after update.



Rob Mahurin wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 09, 1999 at 09:45:37AM -0400, Steve Rothanburg wrote:
> > Anybody know where I can find in.rexecd? I just ran dselect this morning
> > and after the 8megs of updates rexecd is gone.
>
> I think that rexec is now considered evil for security reasons and ssh
> is the recommended replacement.

Then it needs to become a separate package.  I depend on rexecd despite it's
insecurities because the protocol is supported by my Win32 X server (X-Win32).

BTW in.rshd is gone too.

I'm not new to Debian, but I am confused about how this daemon could drop out from
under all of us without a notice to some list?

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