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rhosts, hosts.equiv - trusted remote users or hosts
SYNOPSIS
~user/.rhosts
/etc/hosts.equiv
DESCRIPTION
The per user .rhosts and the per system hosts.equiv files can be used
to allow users to use rlogin or rsh without a password. The remote
login services first check the system wide /etc/hosts.equiv file and
then the ~user/.rhosts of the intended user. Both files contain lines
of one of two forms:
host
host ruser
The first form tells that any user from host is allowed to login to
this system under the same name. The second form allows ruser from
host to login.
Under MINIX 3 host may be a pattern using * as a wildcard. One can use
this, carefully one may hope, to allow an entire domain to log in.
Host may also be an IP address, or a network specification in CIDR
form, e.g. 172.16.102.64/27.
SEE ALSOrlogin(1), rsh(1).
NOTES
MINIX 3 has no restrictions on becoming super-user remotely. Other
systems usually require one to log in as a user and then use su to
become root.
You must use fully qualified hostnames, it is not possible to omit the
domain part.
AUTHOR
Kees J. Bot <kjb@cs.vu.nl>
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