On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 10:10:58AM -0400, Mike Mueller wrote: > On Friday 13 June 2003 04:42, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 11:46:49PM -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote: > > > * Mike M ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030612 21:48]: > > > > On the Debian system, when I query evironments vars, I do not set > > > > CVS_RSH set. Why do the Debian systems allow the :ext: access > > > > method to work without having the CVS_RSH var set? > > > > > > The default is to use rsh. If you've installed ssh, but not > > > rsh-client, then /usr/bin/rsh is a symlink to ssh. (Well, indirectly, > > > anyway, through the alternatives system). > > > > ... for now, anyway. There's a bug report asking for this to be removed > > since ssh no longer implements the rsh fallback that it used to > > implement; I'm inclined to agree, so it may disappear soon. > > Where and how is the defaulting done? CVS compile option? Config > file? Ask the package maintainer?
CVS_RSH, as the name suggests, defaults to rsh. This is a compile-time option in the cvs package, but Debian just leaves this at the upstream default of rsh. At the moment the ssh package installs an rsh symlink pointing to ssh; as I've just explained, this may change and you should explicitly set CVS_RSH=ssh if that's what you want. See the "Connecting with rsh" node in 'info cvs' for more information on CVS_RSH. > I don't want to change CVS on Debian. I want to understand why I > don't have to set CVS_RSH on Debian. Vineet explained this above. The rsh -> ssh symlink is a "feature" of the Debian ssh package, and one which I'd advise you not to rely on. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
