On Fri, 13 Dec 2002, Ron Roskens wrote:

> On 13 Dec 2002, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
>
> > Chuck Yerkes <chuck+nbsd@2003.snew.com> writes:
> > > Is there any reason not to just have CVS (and rsync and rdist)
> > > just use ssh by default?
> >
> > None but history. I would love to see patches that fix this by
> > default.
> >
> > Those that want to still use rsh can turn that on, of course, but
> > defaults are for what most people want...
>
> FreeBSD has already done this:
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/contrib/cvs/src/client.c.diff?r1=1.9&r2=1.1.1.13
>
> replaces both points where 'cvs_rsh = "rsh";' in client.c.
>
> Patches to rsync are in the FreeBSD ports tree.

	This seems an eminently sensible change - providing its
	well documented in the manpages and an FAQ added to the
	website :)

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