Re: What should be done:

Joe McGuckin (joe@via.net)
Mon, 2 Dec 1996 19:19:14 -0800

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Livingston peoples,
A couple of nice features that would be really beneficial to
me and a lot of other programmers, would be a "finger" service or a "sh
sess", which could be done without a password. ie "telnet pm1 8888", and
the portmaster automatically gives you the result of sh sess etc... That
way we don't have to flash our password around whenever we want to do a
"pmwho" etc....

Regards,
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How about the Cisco feature:

ip rcmd rsh-enable
ip rcmd remote-host gw.via.net 206.178.35.1 joe

where user 'joe' can issue rsh commands to his trusty cisco router...

% rsh -l gw.via.net gw sho clock

*06:12:54.508 UTC Mon Mar 8 1993

-joe