OK.

Sun Nov 2 04:53:34 UTC 1997

> >   Moreover, and keeping with the operational charter of the newsgroup, I 
> >   would not recommend that folks enable r* commands on their cisco
> >   routers.
> 
> I have been thinking about this; and, I can't figure out why. If you can
> in the cisco specifically tell it which machines to listen to for rsh
> connections, and specifically tell it not to allow any enable commands,
> how can it be bad?

Well, if its possible to r* into a router, its possible to take
advantage of a mistake by an administrator (forgetting to disable a
service or temporarily enabling it and forgetting to AGAIN disable it)
and get into the router.

I think the primary reason for disabling r* commands is not so much
because of inherrint problems but more to close potential holes and
prevent accidents.

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