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Date:      Fri, 10 Mar 2000 13:09:40 -0700
From:      Chris Fedde <chris@fedde.littleton.co.us>
To:        Paul Orr <Paul.Orr@jetsam.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: rhosts mask really makes a difference? 
Message-ID:  <200003102009.e2AK9em75462@fedde.littleton.co.us>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 10 Mar 2000 11:27:53 PST." <200003101927.LAA41201@jetsam.com> 

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Paul Orr writes:
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 | 
 | Why is it that (under 3.4 at least) if your .rhosts file protection
 | is 664 you are unable to rlogin without a password?
 | 
 | Some sort of funky security measure?
 | 
 | Paul Orr
 +---------------

Yup! the issue is the write bit on group.  As bad as security in
rsh is, it is still a good idea to minimize the impact of the
transitive property of trust.  Unfortunately iruserok(3) still does
not check that the path to .rhosts can be trusted.

chris
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