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Re: HOSTS.EQUIV "behavior" (Colgate)???
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael K. Johnson)
Mon Oct 21 19:01:23 1996
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From: "Michael K. Johnson" <johnsonm@redhat.com>
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 21 Oct 1996 18:08:05 EDT."
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Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 18:17:30 -0400
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Lawrence Houston writes:
>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!
I can't reproduce this behavior. In every instance which I have tried,
I get the correct host. I've tried from several different hosts from
the middle of my hosts.equiv file, and each time I found that the
correct hostname was logged.
michaelkjohnson
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