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rhosts alleviates the need for a user to enter their password
You can locate all existing .rhosts files on your system with the following command:
[root@deep /]# find /home -name .rhosts

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This was written by Vivek Khokhar. Posted on Monday, June 12, 2006, at 10:23 pm. Filed under Linux. Bookmark the permalink. Follow comments here with the RSS feed. Post a comment or leave a trackback.

2 Comments

  1. Marc wrote:

    Better to disable rhosts authentication and use ssh keys, which are much more secure.

    Tuesday, June 13, 2006 at 1:35 am | Permalink
  2. Vivek Khokhar wrote:

    Excellent link in this regard:

    http://bastille-linux.org/jay/stupid-protocols.html

    Thursday, July 13, 2006 at 6:49 pm | Permalink

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