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.

Ron