Bug 58699

Summary:	RFE: Make CVS_RSH default to ssh
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Raw Hide	Reporter:	Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <bero>
Component:	cvs	Assignee:	Martin Stransky <stransky>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	Aaron Brown <abrown>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	1.0	CC:	behdad, lmacken
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Description Bernhard Rosenkraenzer 2002-01-23 11:43:50 UTC

Description of Problem:
Any non-:pserver: protocol in CVS wants to run rsh. rsh is obsolete; pretty much
all CVS servers - including sourceforge, gnu.org and our own servers - want ssh.
Besides, ssh can fall back to rsh if the server doesn't support ssh connections
(and, of course, you can always export CVS_RSH=rsh if you really really need to
use insecure crap).

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
1.11.1p1-6

Comment 1 Behdad Esfahbod 2004-01-19 04:35:35 UTC

Well, this is really good.  Any way we can get it done?

Comment 2 Kyle R Maxwell 2005-06-01 18:22:06 UTC

Maybe this could go in the skeleton profiles? Alternately, any chance of a
change in the default upstream behavior?

Comment 3 Paul Wouters (this account to be phased out) 2005-09-01 19:49:10 UTC

This should go into /etc/profile.d/cvs.sh, a file that just contains:

# change default from rsh to ssh for cvs command
export CVS_RSH=ssh

which is then included in the cvs rpm.

Surely RedHat enginers must also be getting annoyed at producing rsh requests
when using their cvs repositories? No? :)