Bug#6798: Deals with rsh NIS support
Apparently a
/etc/hosts.equiv containing the single line
+@equiv
"used to work fine" and is now "completely ignored".
According to some old SunOS man pages ;-), this is supposed to allow
rlogin/rsh/rcp/rcmd password-free access for all users from any hosts in
the 'netgroup' list stored in NIS. (I assume it's the interaction with
NIS which caused this to be assigned to libc6.)
But is this sort of passwordless rsh access even desirable to support
any more? It's infamously insecure.
Submitter, if you still exist, do you still care about this bug?
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