Re: root and .rhosts file

[Philippe Troin <phil@fifi.org>]

On Mon, 15 Sep 1997 16:13:43 +0200 Martin Schulze (joey@office.individ
ual.net) wrote:

> On Sep 15, Jeppe Buk wrote
> 
> > > Try adding "-h" after rshd in your /etc/inetd.conf. This flag allows
> > > your in.rshd to use the root .rhosts file. Without it /root/.rhosts
> > > will be silently ignored.
> > 
> > That did it! The option isn't mentioned in the man page. How was I
> > supposed to have found this out myself?
> 
> Please send an appropriate bug report against netstd.

Not necessary.

From `man rshd':
     8.   Rshd then validates the user using ruserok(3),  which uses the file
          /etc/hosts.equiv and the .rhosts file found in the user's home di­
          rectory. The -l option prevents ruserok(3) from doing any validation
          based on the user's ``.rhosts'' file (unless the user is the supe­
          ruser and the -h option is used.) If the -h option is not used, su­
          peruser accounts may not be accessed via this service at all.

Phil.



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