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From: jonathan@cs.keele.ac.uk (Jonathan Knight)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sequent,comp.protocols.nfs
Subject: Re: .rhosts problem with NFS mounted home directory.  DEMO OF BUG.
Message-ID: <365@keele.keele.ac.uk>
Date: 11 Jun 90 17:59:45 GMT
References: <359@keele.keele.ac.uk>
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From article <359@keele.keele.ac.uk>, by jonathan@cs.keele.ac.uk (Jonathan Knight):
> Today I tried to re-create the problem and couldn't.

Looks like it needs a period of inactivity on the sun concerned for
something to timeout and cause the problem.  Here is the script
I ran a few moments ago.  I start off as user 'jonathan' on machine 'derek'

Script started on Mon Jun 11 18:44:07 1990
You have mail.
% rsh ccsun4 -l csd35
Password:
Last login: Mon Jun 11 13:31:34 from derek
Sun UNIX 4.2 Release 3.5EXPORT (CCSUNCLIENT) #2: Fri Oct 6 11:36:07 GMT 1989

		(Large motd that's about a month out of date)

ccsun4% cat .rhosts
cat: read error: Permission denied
ccsun4% ls -l .rhosts
-rw-------  1 csd35         313 Jan 29 15:12 .rhosts
ccsun4% whoami
csd35
ccsun4% cat .rhosts
cat: read error: Permission denied
ccsun4% touch unknown_file
ccsun4% cat .rhosts
derek jonathan
...
...
... (suppressed for reasons of security)


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