Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!rice!sun-spots-request From: John_Stewart@CARLETON.CA Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun Subject: /etc/hosts.equiv file Keywords: Miscellaneous Message-ID: <2862@brazos.Rice.edu> Date: 6 Nov 89 20:35:44 GMT Sender: root@rice.edu Organization: Sun-Spots Lines: 18 Approved: Sun-Spots@rice.edu X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 8, Issue 189, message 8 of 22 I would like to modify our /etc/hosts.equiv files so that only hosts within our YP domain are trusted. Having a '+' record in the file is too liberal because it results in all machines on our campus ethernet being trusted. After reading the Sun manuals, I can only conclude that Sun hasn't given much thought to the problems in maintaining /etc/hosts.equiv. There appears to be no way to say "trust all machines in your YP domain". The only solution seems to be to list each individual host in the file which means the file has to be modified each time a machine is added/removed from your YP domain. Since /etc/hosts.equiv isn't one of the files served by YP, there is no easy way to change every copy in your YP domain. I would be interested in hearing (by mail) what other people are doing to maintain their /etc/hosts.equiv files. If I get any particularily inspiring responses, I will summarize and post to sun-spots. Regards... jas