[SunHELP] .rhosts question

[Will Mc Donald]

A quick google throws up...

http://www.tac.eu.org/cgi-bin/man-cgi?rhosts+5

EXAMPLES
     somehost
           A common usage:  users on somehost may login to the local host as
           the same user name.
     somehost username
           The user username on somehost may login to the local host.  If
           specified in /etc/hosts.equiv, the user may login with only the
           same user name.
     + at anetgroup username
           The user username may login to the local host from any machine
           listed in the netgroup anetgroup.
     +
     + +
           Two severe security hazards.  In the first case, allows a user on
           any machine to login to the local host as the same user name.  In
           the second case, allows any user on any machine to login to the
lo-
           cal host (as any user, if in /etc/hosts.equiv).

Hmm, NetBSD man pages look nice and comprehensive (compared to Red Hat),
certainly more so than linux. I've been meaning to download a BSD variant to
play with for a while. :)

----- Original Message -----
From: <william.x.ng at verizon.com>
To: <sunhelp at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2001 2:21 PM
Subject: [SunHELP] .rhosts question


>
> All,
> Does anyone know what is the difference between "+" and "+ +" on .rhosts
> file?
> Here is the issue that I have, I have two machines (A and B), same
> configuration, running NIS+ .
> machine A, user A has .rhosts with +, user B rlogin to machine A, it
works.
> machine B, user A has .rhosts with +, user B rlogin to machine A, it
> doesn't work. But if user A put "+ +", then B can do rlogin.
>
> Can someone let me know why??
> Thanks
>
> William
>
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