On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 12:24:12PM +0200, Ian Coetzee wrote: > I would however suggest you use ssh , as it is more secure At least on recent versions of Ubuntu, they are the same: $ rsh -V $ OpenSSH_5.1p1 Debian-6ubuntu2, OpenSSL 0.9.8g 19 Oct 2007 -- Hal