18 Apr
2012
18 Apr
'12
8:30 p.m.
On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 9:20 PM, Eric Bélanger <snowmaniscool@gmail.com> wrote:
Currently, the inetutils packages provide the old unsecure r* family of tools. There is currently a bug report [1] asking for the removal of rexec as it it particularly unsecure. As these things are old and I suppose everyone has moved to more secure apps like ssh/sftp, I'm thinking about removing all these r* tools.
Also, there is another bug report [2] about removing /bin/domainname. This wrapper script is currently broken and users using NIS probably already have yp-tools installed, which provides its own /usr/bin/domainname. This will also fix a future conflict whenever we'll get rid of /bin.
Both points sound good to me. -t