Retro Linux box: No SSH, need telnet solution for dumping a disk image over the network.

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 04:35:24PM -0400, Robert Brockway wrote:
> On Fri, 28 May 2010, Scott Sullivan wrote:
>
>> At a recent Convention I acquired an IBM P70 (1989) luggable.
>> I'm trying to dump the contents of the harddrive across the network.
>>
>> The installed linux on the dosen't have ssh.
>> So is there any way to preform the below with telnet?
>
> Hi Scott. rsh can be used to do similar things to ssh (like pipe stdout  
> over the network), albeit insecurely.  rshd may not be running so you may 
> need to start it - a lot of boxes had it set to start from inetd.
>
> rsh is likely to be installed on any vintage Linux box.

Actually the vintage box just needs rsh.  The modern target box is the
one that needs rshd running to receive the file.  That shouldn't be hard
to do.

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Len Sorensen
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