> On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 09:06:03PM -0800, Lachlan Cranswick wrote:
> > Not sure if this was answered in the recent flurry of postings but
> > what is the status on putting a cut-down version of ssh inside
> > rsync to allow an "easy" encryption option?
>
> I don't recall anybody suggesting that exactly. I for one am quite opposed
> to the idea. I think using an external ssh is easy enough.
May have not paraphrased this correctly(?).
This would be in the archive late October to early November 2000:
Nov 03 * Martin Pool (113) Re: Builtin encryption support in
Part of the vibe was that running rsync via ssh can be a put-off
to implement rsync securely. Getting rsync running satifactorily via
ssh can also assume good and easy access to remote computers
which may not be the case. (some sys admins / custodians can
get freaked when you start talking about tunnelling things
via ssh - and/or may not have ssh installed)
The main concept(?): to encourage people to use rsync securely -
such things should be made easy to do. The number of
queries relating to ssh and rsync could infer (or imply?) it
is only "easy enough" to implement after you have done it a
few times?
Lachlan.
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