Re: rcp with root?

["Carlo U. Segre" <segre@charlie.cns.iit.edu>]

Upon a more careful observation of the new man page for rshd (I can't
imagine how I failed to see it except that the option was buried in the
paragraph and not on the left margin where it is visible) I noticed that
using the -h option for rshd will re-enable the feature allowing rcp as
root.

Sorry for wasting bandwidth :)

Carlo


On Fri, 30 May 1997, Carlo U. Segre wrote:

> Hello All:
> 
> I just finished upgrading our Debian cluster to the frozen distribution
> and now the mechanism we used for synchronizing important system files is
> no longer working.  With the previous setup we used the rcp command as
> root to copy passwd files and system.fvwmrc files to all of the machines
> in the cluster from the master.  The authentication was through the
> .rhosts file in the /root directory.
> 
> The .rhosts file seems to be still there and OK.  I can still rlogin
> between machines using my personal user account, but any attempt to use
> rcp as root results in a response: 'permission denied'.  
> 
> Is this a new security feature?  Is it possible to switch it off?  
> 



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