Xref: utzoo comp.protocols.tcp-ip:5687 news.sysadmin:1834 Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!ucbvax!hplabs!well!bandy From: bandy@well.UUCP (Andrew Scott Beals) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip,news.sysadmin Subject: Re: .rhosts deleter Message-ID: <7840@well.UUCP> Date: 5 Dec 88 19:45:38 GMT References: <23676@pprg.unm.edu> Reply-To: bandy@well.UUCP (Andrew Scott Beals) Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link, Sausalito, CA Lines: 9 Another solution to the .rhosts problem, which I implemented when I was at Lawrence Livermore back in '86 was to require a recent login on the account that you wish to use rlogin/rsh/rcp to before the .rhosts file can be valid. This helps to solve the problem of people leaving .rhosts files lying around and then forgetting them when a "friendly" site turns hostile. -- for those of you who don't trust the headers: bandy@lll-crg.llnl.gov or {pacbell,lll-winken,hoptoad,hplabs,apple}!well!bandy