Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!ispd-newsserver!garden!weimer
From: weimer@garden.kodak.COM (Gary Weimer (588-0953))
Subject: Re: .rhosts
Message-ID: <1991Mar20.183458.4037@ssd.kodak.com>
Sender: news@ssd.kodak.com
Reply-To: weimer@ssd.kodak.com
Organization: Eastman Kodak Co.; Rochester, NY
References:  <13943@hacgate.UUCP>
Distribution: ca
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 91 18:34:58 GMT

In article <13943@hacgate.UUCP> you write:
...
|> Here is the problem. My management wants me to stop using .rhosts
|> as the permission for  this transfer. fred's transfer is from the root 
|> account. If I remove the .rhosts from mary, then fred gets permmission
|> denied. Useing hosts.equiv will not work since fred's root account cannot 
|> be there. Or can it? what other method can rcmd be used to do this 
|> cpio transfer?

Using the hosts.equiv creates a bigger security problem than the .rhosts
file (I assume this is why you are suppose to stop using it.)

Could you do an su <some_user> on fred to do the transfer and create a
.rhosts for <some_user>? (Management may not consider this an
improvement.)

weimer@ssd.kodak.com ( Gary Weimer )