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Minix 3.1.2a

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1.TH RHOSTS 5
2.SH NAME
3rhosts, hosts.equiv \- trusted remote users or hosts
4.SH SYNOPSIS
5.BI ~ user /.rhosts
6.br
7.B /etc/hosts.equiv
8.SH DESCRIPTION
9The per user
10.B .rhosts
11and the per system
12.B hosts.equiv
13files can be used to allow users to use
14.B rlogin
15or
16.B rsh
17without a password. The remote login services first check the system wide
18.B /etc/hosts.equiv
19file and then the
20.BI ~ user /.rhosts
21of the intended user. Both files contain lines of one of two forms:
22.PP
23.RS
24.I host
25.br
26.I host ruser
27.RE
28.PP
29The first form tells that any user from
30.I host
31is allowed to login to this system under the same name. The second form
32allows
33.I ruser
34from
35.I host
36to login.
37.PP
38Under MINIX 3
39.I host
40may be a pattern using
41.B "*"
42as a wildcard. One can use this, carefully one may hope, to allow an
43entire domain to log in.
44.I Host
45may also be an IP address, or a network specification in CIDR form, e.g.
46172.16.102.64/27.
47.SH "SEE ALSO"
48.BR rlogin (1),
49.BR rsh (1).
50.SH NOTES
51MINIX 3 has no restrictions on becoming super-user remotely. Other systems
52usually require one to log in as a user and then use
53.BR su
54to become root.
55.PP
56You must use fully qualified hostnames, it is not possible to
57omit the domain part.
58.SH AUTHOR
59Kees J. Bot <kjb@cs.vu.nl>
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