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- From: wswietse@wsbs06.bs.win.tue.nl (Wietse Venema)
- Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs
- Subject: Re: on.c source
- Message-ID: <4093@svin09.info.win.tue.nl>
- Date: 8 Sep 92 14:22:15 GMT
- References: <ANDYP.92Sep4165259@shared.shared.COM> <4074@svin09.info.win.tue.nl> <pibfrco@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com>
- Sender: news@svin09.info.win.tue.nl
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- wswietse@wsbs06.bs.win.tue.nl (Wietse Venema) writes:
- > The on/rexd protocol is as secure as a wildcard in your hosts.equiv file.
- > Be careful.
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- vjs@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com (Vernon Schryver) writes:
- >Nice analogy, but wouldn't a wild card in /.rhosts be more similar to rexd?
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- The SunOS 4.1.1 rexd refuses access to the root account. This leaves
- bin, daemon etc. unprotected, so the restriction hardly helps.
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- SunOS 4.1.1 rexd is like having "+ +" in /etc/hosts.equiv.
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- Wietse
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