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Not great naming imho, this has been around for 40 years.. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote_Shell https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote_Shell
by _joel 3y ago
Not great naming imho, this has been around for 40 years.. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote_Shell https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote_Shell
- layer8 3y agoCould have named it rbsh. Though the pronunciation could be controversial.
- petepete 3y agorubbish!
- Fire-Dragon-DoL 3y agorbsh would be very recognizable for ruby users (rb being the file extension commonly used)
- geir_isene 3y agorbsh is actually a cool idea. I just might adopt that.
- ninefathom 3y agoSeconded. Naming an interactive language shell after ssh's older, insecure cousin just seems like begging for trouble. I'm imagining some auditor seeing an "rsh" binary on a Linux system and dinging the system on it, and weeks of back and forth emails and meetings required to determine that, no, in fact, this is not remote shell, it's Ruby shell, and it's actually not a valid audit finding. And, of course, that's completely omitting the binary collision issue because frankly anybody with "old" rsh installed deserves whatever pain they get.