Dear Joey,
I have just read your message, and I have a few comments. The fact that
the ssh command failed to work (and asked for a password) is likely an
indication of an error at the time of login in, this probably means that
there is an error in the ~/.bashrc file of the user using Alpine (or
equivalent.)
If you want to disable completely ssh and rsh login to the server for
everyone, you can set the rsh-open-timeout and ssh-open-timeout variables
to zero in your global pine-conf file (the one that is supposed to be
located in /etc/.)
Granted that rsh and ssh support are hacks, they are quite convenient;
they allow a user to connect to a local server (and be automatically
logged in!), and they are useful to people that want to use an imap server
to read folders in formats that Alpine does not support. It is still used,
although it is not necessarily used in the way it was designed to be used,
so it will probably stay there, as there are people that still depend on
it.
By the way, you might receive a duplicate message. I am copying you and
sending it to the bug-tracker, since the latter has rejected my messages
in the past because of my signature, so just to make sure you get it, I am
copying you.
I hope this message does not make you sad ;).
--
Eduardo
http://patches.freeiz.com/alpine/
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