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by MYEUHD 16 days ago
I have already been using openrsync even before the recent AI drama.

Just like I have been using doas for several years.

All I need is `rsync -urvP` and I suspect the majority of users don't need the advanced features either.

The smaller code base also means less bugs and vulnerabilities. As an example doas is ~1k lines vs 160k for sudo. That surely means a smaller attack surface. The same is true for openrsync and rsync at approximately 18k vs 57k lines.

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Yeap and still has bugs (reports say that the base system bin in 7.9 doesn't work properly): https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=178070682043839&w=2

And here: https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&w=2&r=1&s=rsync&q=b you can quite a few other bugs...

I use OpenBSD for routers and love it :-) but it is software, hence it has bugs .-