Subject: Need for rshd access from PINE

From: Jim Kenyon <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1993 21:43:01 -0400 (EDT)

It appears that PINE tries to contact the rshd on the imapd host even if 
the "passwordless" access feature of PINE is not being used.  I noticed 
this when I commented out rshd in inetd.conf on my mailhub (a bit of 
firewalling) -- connections to the server took about a minute to complete 
(from the "Opening INBOX" message to the userid prompt) with rshd 
disabled.  Connections establish in about 2 seconds with rshd enabled.  
Why is PINE (if it is) trying to talk to rshd even when not doing rsh 
authentication?
-jk

Jim Kenyon -- [email-masked] 
Systems Research Programmer II, School of Public Health

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From: Mark Crispin <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1993 19:13:53 -0700 (PDT)

> Why is PINE (if it is) trying to talk to rshd even when not doing rsh 

There is no way for Pine to know whether or not it is using rsh based 
authentication unless it tries it.  It sounds to me that your rsh client 
is timing out rather than getting a connection refused error.