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Date:      Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:26:41 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To:        "Abraham J. Stephens" <stephea@aasis.albany-academy.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: executing rsh commands on a FreeBSD 2.2.1 box.
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.03.9904261725410.6951-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.990426175451.27250A-100000@aasis.albany-academy.org>

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On Mon, 26 Apr 1999, Abraham J. Stephens wrote:

> I have several servers on a network, two FreeBSD boxes (aasis and fs) and
> one Solaris 7 box (student).
> 
> I have three identical users, one on each machine. The user's home
> directory and his .rhosts file is mounted from a single fileserver on each
> machine.

Let me be frank: rsh sucks. :-) Use ssh instead.  It's much, *much* more
secure and doesn't have this type of silly host-based authentication.
Versions exist for most UNIX versions, including FreeBSD and Solaris.

Doug White                               
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve
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