Re: Directory Permissions

Steve Kotsopoulos (steve@ecf.toronto.edu)
Mon, 17 Oct 1994 11:19:20 -0400

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Paul "Shag" Walmsley <ccshag@everest.cclabs.missouri.edu> wrote:

> 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)

... and a note of caution: rlogind under IRIX has the same option
(according to the manual), but it is BROKEN. SGI is aware of this bug.

	Steve

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