On Sat, 15 Oct 1994, George Hodson wrote: > James and his users' .rhosts files got me thinking... > > How about /home/JoeBrown in passwd > /home/JoeBrown owned by root > /home/JoeBrown/.profile (or whatever) cds JoeBrown into a subdir he owns > /home/JoeBrown/.profile sources a file owned by JoeBrown in his subdir. > > > This way root _can_ really own .rhosts .profile .kshrc etc, and > set some variables readonly if he chooses. Also he can control use > of .forward .rhosts etc. > > > Probably far too simple for this list, I mean permissions on directories > aren't an issue, are they :-) > > George > I just thought I ought to put in a word here for the IRIX admins among us: IRIX's rshd can be prevented from reading .rhosts files if the -l switch is used. (This is on IRIX 5; I don't remember whether IRIX 4 supports the same behavior) - Paul "Shag" Walmsley <ccshag@everest.cclabs.missouri.edu> "I am learning and evolving."