On Wed, 2002-02-06 at 02:25, Borsenkow Andrej wrote: > > I think ssh calls rsh when something can't be done (I'm quite sure > with the > > output from strings but need to verify)
Hrmm, just the auth protocol, not the binary, the reason why it's setuid root. > > It can be configured to fall back to rsh, yes. Would you ever actually > want it? Exactly... > > > So you want to use ssh but there are cvs servers who still use rsh out > > there. > > You do not need the setuid bit on rsh for cvs to work by any means AFAIK, could be wrong. So if I am, I say, how many of these exists? Try to put yourself in the shoes of a mandrake end-user... Do you think you would ever come into contact with such a setup? (This once again brings me to my "ideas", but I will not talk about them now, it's useless chatter since 8.2 is close to freeze). > Really? Could you name one? Why not use pserver instead in this case? > > -andrej He asks the same question I do : ) -- Bryan Paxton Public PGP key: http://www.deadhorse.net/bpaxton.gpg "What laughter, why joy, when constantly aflame? Enveloped in darkness, don't you look for a lamp?" Dhp. 163
