Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!wuarchive!julius.cs.uiuc.edu!rpi!uupsi!sunic!news.funet.fi!kannel!Kimmo.Suominen From: Kimmo.Suominen@lut.fi (Kimmo Suominen) Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin Subject: Re: .rhosts vs. hosts.equiv Message-ID: Date: 12 Jan 91 21:04:36 GMT References: <1991Jan10.152906.18440@mthvax.cs.miami.edu> Sender: kim@lut.fi (Kimmo Suominen) Organization: Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland Lines: 15 In-Reply-To: Dan_Jacobson@ATT.COM's message of 12 Jan 91 00:25:26 GMT Disclaimer: These are my opinions unless otherwise stated >>>>> On 10 Jan 91 15:29:06 GMT, aem@mthvax.cs.miami.edu (a.e.mossberg) said: AEM> All .rhosts must be unreadable/unwritable by group and others [...] >>>>> On 12 Jan 91 00:25:26 GMT, Dan_Jacobson@ATT.COM said: Dan> -rw-r--r-- mode works fine for me. Are you saying this for good taste Dan> in security, or will something break otherwise? That's the only way it works for me. Additionally, I must have x-permission to other (and I have it for group also) for my home directory. Otherwise I can't access hosts that have my home directory mounted via NFS. This is propably due to root being translated to nobody over NFS-mounts. -- Kim / Internet: Kimmo.Suominen@lut.fi "That's what I think." / Bitnet: KIM@FINFILES