rsh fallback

[Damien Miller]

David Woodhouse wrote:
> 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.

Yes - here is the diff I used to deprecate rsh. It probably needs some 
cleanup.

-d
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