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- From: cmcmanis@pepper.Eng.Sun.COM (Chuck McManis)
- Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs
- Subject: Re: on.c source
- Date: 9 Sep 1992 09:30:47 GMT
- Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mt. View, Ca.
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- andyp@shared.COM (Andy Pardue) writes:
- > The on/rexd protocol is as secure as a wildcard in your hosts.equiv file.
- > Be careful.
-
-
- Vernon Schryver added:
- >Nice analogy, but wouldn't a wild card in /.rhosts be more similar to rexd?
-
- Actually in 4.1.2 we put in the option for rpc.rexd to use Secure RPC
- as its authentication mechanism. So its more like leaving a password
- out of your /etc/passwd file now.
-
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