rsh fallback

David Woodhouse dwmw2 at infradead.org
Wed Apr 30 08:14:05 EST 2003


On Tue, 2003-04-29 at 17:09, Dan Astoorian wrote: 
> A possible refinement of this method would be for the wrapper script to
> probe the ssh port of the remote host, 
> <...>
> An alternative approach would be a wrapper script which is aware of
> which of your servers have not yet been converted from rsh to ssh, 

Each of these is similarly hackish. A better alternative would be to
modify the SSH client itself to fall back to RSH if it's configured
appropriately and the SSH connection attempt fails.

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dwmw2





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