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From: robert@shangri-la.gatech.edu (Robert Viduya)
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Subject: Re: .rhosts problem with NFS mounted home directory - is it real?
Keywords: NFS rsh rlogin passwd .rhosts
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Date: 9 Jun 90 16:41:58 GMT
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>cca13@seq1.keele.ac.uk (G.D. Pratt) (cca13@seq1.keele.ac.uk, <343@keele.keele.ac.uk>):
> I have a weird problem with setting up .rhosts files in users
> home directories so that they can do remote shells and rlogins
> without password.

One thing to watch out for on NFS-mounted home directories and .rhosts
files is that the .rhosts file and all containing directories have to
be world-readable (unless the NFS filesystems are exported with root
priviledges, a no-no, imho).  Remember that rlogind and company run as
root and need to be able to read those files.

		robert
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