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From: sater@cs.vu.nl (Hans van Staveren)
Newsgroups: comp.bugs.4bsd
Subject: rdump security deficiency, or am I wrong?
Message-ID: <498@sater.cs.vu.nl>
Date: Fri, 11-Sep-87 04:47:35 EDT
Article-I.D.: sater.498
Posted: Fri Sep 11 04:47:35 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 12-Sep-87 15:37:15 EDT
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When running rdump on my workstation I have to be root (ofcourse).
However to write the tape on the remote machine I also have to be
in the /.rhosts file on dumphost.
Now *I* can be trusted :-), but there are other workstations on this
net. It would seem that rdump should not need to be root on dumphost
since it only writes a tape.

This could be
1) My lack of understanding
2) Something that one can kludge around
3) A bug

Which of the three?
Eternal gratitude for a day to the solver of this mystery.

				Hans van Staveren