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Re: CVS_RSH for :ext: CVS access



On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 09:50:29AM -0700, Mark Ferlatte wrote:
> Colin Watson said on Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 09:42:07AM +0100:
> > On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 11:46:49PM -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote:
> > > * Mike M (linux-support@earthlink.net) [030612 21:48]:
> > > > On the Debian system, when I query evironments vars, I do not set
> > > > CVS_RSH set.  Why do the Debian systems allow the :ext: access
> > > > method to work without having the CVS_RSH var set?
> > > 
> > > The default is to use rsh.  If you've installed ssh, but not
> > > rsh-client, then /usr/bin/rsh is a symlink to ssh.  (Well, indirectly,
> > > anyway, through the alternatives system).
> > 
> > ... for now, anyway. There's a bug report asking for this to be removed
> > since ssh no longer implements the rsh fallback that it used to
> > implement; I'm inclined to agree, so it may disappear soon.
> 
> ARG!  Why why why!

Because if you type 'rsh some-rsh-server' it does Weird Stuff because
ssh doesn't know how to talk to rsh servers any more?

> Right now, everything that has silly default settings to use rsh
> automatically uses ssh, which means that things Just Work in a secure
> environment.  If this happens, would it be possible to change all of
> the upstream defaults to use ssh instead of rsh instead?

Well, you have to do this on every other system anyway (see the
confusion in this very thread) ... I dunno.

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



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