Bug#298985: libc6-dev: ruserok failes when hosts.equiv and .rhosts are symlinks

[Ryan Lovett <ryan@stat.Berkeley.EDU>]

Package: libc6-dev
Version: 2.3.2.ds1-19.0.0.2.pure64
Severity: normal

I don't know if this is intentional, but if /etc/hosts.equiv or .rhosts
are symlinks, ruserok fails. Moving the target of the link into place
causes ruserok to succeed. ruserok also succeeds if hard links are used.

Symlinks are fine on Solaris.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.9-9-amd64-k8-smp
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages libc6-dev depends on:
ii  libc6          2.3.2.ds1-19.0.0.2.pure64 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  linux-kernel-h 2.5.999-test7-bk-17       Linux Kernel Headers for developme

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