It's my opinion first and foremost that you are not a moron.
Thanks.
Moreover, and keeping with the operational charter of the newsgroup, I would not recommend that folks enable r* commands on their cisco routers.
I have been thinking about this; and, I can't figure out why. If you can in the cisco specifically tell it which machines to listen to for rsh connections, and specifically tell it not to allow any enable commands, how can it be bad?
When automated access is required, automating access with stored passwords can be done quite handily.
I have a couple problems with this; one, the password is stored on disk, somewhere. Two; what if the password is changed? Or different on each box? That is a royal pain in the ass. Three; It seems that rsh/rcmd connections are *way* faster than a telnet/login/whatever/exit routine -- at least in my experience.
While one must focus on protecting the sanctity of the stored passwords, one doesn't have to focus on the security of forged r* logins. Protecting something within a host, rather than a network segment, is probably simpler in this case than the converse.
I look forward to more comments.