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- From: tym@dibbler.cs.monash.edu.au (Tim MacKenzie)
- Subject: Ultrix 4.2 rlogind is stuffed, really stuffed.
- Message-ID: <1992Aug27.000234.27338@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au>
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- Organization: Computer Science, Monash University, Australia
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- Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 00:02:34 GMT
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- Explain this to me please.
- rlogin yoyo.cc
- ULTRIX V4.2A (Rev. 47) System #14: Fri May 15 10:42:07 EST 1992
- % groups
- hero
- % who | grep `whoami`
- % mv .rhosts .rhosts.stuffed
- % mv .rhosts.works .rhosts
- % exit
- Bye
- rlogin yoyo.cc
- ULTRIX V4.2A (Rev. 47) System #14: Fri May 15 10:42:07 EST 1992
- % groups
- hero admin security
- % who | grep `whoami`
- tym ttypa Aug 27 09:48 (dibbler.cs.monas)
-
- # groups tym
- hero admin security
-
- In case you haven't worked it out, if my .rhosts is too long, then rlogin
- will get me in, but no groups will be initialized, no utmp entry written,
- and no wtmp entry entered. This occurs if I login from a SunOS4.1.1 machine
- or a Ultrix4.2 machine, so it's probably rlogind causing the problem.
-
- I realize that I can make my .rhosts smaller and the problem goes away, but
- this does not stop other users on the system from avoiding entry in utmp
- by having a big rhosts file.
-
- Has anyone got a fix?
- --
- -Tim MacKenzie (tym@dibbler.cs.monash.edu.au)
-