>> I honestly don't think it's worth it. Anyone who can compile can
>> compile (and install) ssh.
>
>Possibly it is not worthwhile after all -- I always knew it would be
>worse than SSL but the idea of completely cutting out the transport
>problems was tempting.
>
>If it turns out that there are OS bugs and they can't be fixed on some
>platforms, then rsync should probably try to work around them. As I
>mentioned before, perhaps turning off pipelining would help.
Actually, from a user point of view - having basic ssh/crypto
build into rsync could be very nice. Installing ssh is not
a problem but getting it tunnelling and working in a secure
way for programs like rsync is not that much fun (irrespective
of various other problems that can occur).
When working on remote machines for remote mirroring - playing
with the ssh deamon and related areas can be a problem.
Just being able to restrict the work to rsync would be
potentially much more fun and reliable - without affecting
other parts of the system that may be out of bounds to work
on anyway.
Lachlan.
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