On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 08:29:36PM -0800, Wayne Davison wrote:
> I've attached one possible patch [...]
I've just checked in some additional tweaks that implement one more
thing: we look for the RSYNC_RSH_IO environment variable to allow the
user to set the blocking IO for the remote shell specif
I'm all for making it use ssh as default.
That said, I've noticed (at least when using -e ssh) that if ssh prompts
for a password or such, and you hit ctrl-c, you're more often than not
left with a tty with screwed up settings. This is because ssh turns off
echo and such for asking the password,
On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 08:37:29PM -0800, jw schultz wrote:
> Your patch looks like what i was suggesting with the improvement to
> cope with "-e /path/to/rsh" very nice.
The ensuing discussion convinced me that this is a good thing to do now,
so I committed my patch. Anyone who objects to this,
On Mon, 15 Dec 2003, Jim Salter wrote:
> > I'm feeling a little more comfortable with this change now. What do
> > folks think about having something like [ssh instead of rsh as default] in
> 2.6.0?
>
> I'd say go for it. If nothing else, it would be nice to get away from the
> current situation
I second that. Keeping rsh as the default is both an annoyance and a
security risk, depending on one's local setup and installation. In
fact I recently compiled 2.5.7 via "configure --with-rsh=ssh". Now I'm
finding out with horror that this screws up things with blocking I/O,
which defies t
> I'm feeling a little more comfortable with this change now. What do
> folks think about having something like [ssh instead of rsh as default] in
2.6.0?
I'd say go for it. If nothing else, it would be nice to get away from the
current situation of potentially *encouraging* newbs to *start* usin
On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 08:29:36PM -0800, Wayne Davison wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 12:11:41PM -0800, jw schultz wrote:
> > It would be worthwhile to add a note in INSTALL to advise people of
> > the --with-rsh configure option.
>
> I would not currently recommend that people use --with-rsh t
On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 12:11:41PM -0800, jw schultz wrote:
> It would be worthwhile to add a note in INSTALL to advise people of
> the --with-rsh configure option.
I would not currently recommend that people use --with-rsh to set the
default to be ssh because that affects the blocking I/O default
On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 10:51:08AM -0800, Wayne Davison wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 10:03:28AM -0800, jw schultz wrote:
>
> > The one thing i really would have liked to have seen in a version bump
> > would have been changing the default remote shell to ssh instead of
> > rsh/remsh.
>
> I ca
