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HOSTS.EQUIV "behavior" (Colgate)???
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lawrence Houston)
Mon Oct 21 18:49:21 1996
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 18:08:05 -0400 (EDT)
From: Lawrence Houston <houston@boyd.geog.mcgill.ca>
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Fellow Colgate USERS:
Colgate is behaving "strangely" when a non-empty HOST.EQUIV File (to
permit "trusted" hosts the use of "R" Commands without requiring a
password) is used. With the named Hosts "R" Commands are working as
expected, but there is a problem with those Hosts NOT appearing in
HOST.EQUIV! The wtmp entries reflect the last entry in HOSTS.EQUIV rather
than the actual remote hostname (as displayed with commands such as "w",
"who" & "last")! This makes security monitoring impossible without
manually checking "/var/log/secure" for the IP Addresses (who's numerical
values are actually correct)??? Since I can NOT continue with the wtmp
being this "incorrect", HOSTS.EQUIV will be disabled until a solution can
be found!
NOTE: This works correctly under Red Hat 3.0.3!
ADDITIONALLY: after performing the Red Hat 4.0 Installation (NOT an
upgrade), seem to remember having to maually create the
"/var/log/wtmp" file!
Lawrence Houston - (houston@boyd.geog.mcgill.ca)
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