[1196] in bugtraq
Comments in /.rhosts (was Re: COPS reporting unrestricted NFS exports
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher Samuel)
Tue Mar 7 06:37:39 1995
To: bugtraq@fc.net
Cc: Rich Boren <rich.boren@cxo.mts.dec.com>
In-Reply-To: <9503061909.AA10334@brittany.oes.amdahl.com>
Date: Tue, 07 Mar 1995 09:27:05 +0000
From: Christopher Samuel <chris@rivers.dra.hmg.gb>
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In message <9503061909.AA10334@brittany.oes.amdahl.com>,
patrick@oes.amdahl.com (Patrick Horgan) writes:
> The syntax of the /etc/hosts.equiv and .rhosts doesn't have a comment.
> If you put something in there it's assumed to mean something.
> Administrators need to know the syntax of the files they deal with.
Vendors also. For instance:
usenet@phoenix % more /.rhosts.orig
# @(#).rhosts 8.1 Ultrix 9/18/92
Ultrix 4.4, for reference.
Chris
P.S. IMHO Sun should have thought about this when they wrote the code
to parse the files.. :-)
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