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 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]