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Re: what's wrong with rsync?



On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 11:01:14PM +1300, Richard Hector wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-01-28 at 22:39, Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote:
> > Be sure and use it only behind a good firewall, in a trusted LAN.  The
> > whole r* (rsync, rsh, etc.) series is wildly insecure.
> 
> Well, (according to the manpage) it uses rsh by default, but it can use
> ssh as an alternative.

Yup. Despite the name, rsync by itself isn't really part of the
r-programs. In fact, I've only ever used it anonymously.

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]



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