Re: root and .rhosts file (again)
> Hi
>
> Thanks for all the answers I got to my original message. I'm afraid you
> all misunderstood my question, though.
>
> I am not interested in allowing remote root logins to my machine. Only rsh
> and friends (like rcp). To illustrate, this is a transcript from a short
> session from our primary server (the one requiring rsh access to the
> debian hosts):
>
> To the machine working correctly:
> |-------------------------------------
> | # rsh deb1 date
> | Thu Sep 11 15:12:48 MET DST 1997
> |
> | # rlogin deb1
> | root login refused on this terminal.
> |
> | deb1 login:
Why do you think that is "correctly"? Do you think a mashine not
allowing root logins, while it does allow
rsh deb1 sh -c 'dd if=/dev/null of=/dev/hda'
working correctly (don't try it!)? At least I think the new behaviour
> To the debian 1.3.1 machine:
> |-------------------------------------
> | # rsh deb2 date
> | Permission denied.
> |
> | # rlogin deb2
> | Password:
> |-------------------------------------
Is consistant, and preferable.
--
joost witteveen, joostje@debian.org
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#what's this? see http://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa/
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