.rhosts files

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

Comments (2)

  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 #
  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 #