Re: rsh ~/.rhosts file

2005-03-27 Thread Michael Green
Guys, I'd really want to stop this discussion. I've got the answer I was looking for. Thank you for that (Vitaly)! I'm not in the mood to discuss here Weizmann's computing choices. I'm really sorry it got down to this. Thank you, Michael On Sun, 27 Mar 2005 22:50:31 +0200, Tzafrir Cohen <[EMA

Re: rsh ~/.rhosts file

2005-03-27 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sun, Mar 27, 2005 at 11:24:01AM +0200, Michael Green wrote: > On Sun, 27 Mar 2005 10:58:31 +0200, Shachar Shemesh > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > First, let me state what should, by now, be obvious to anyone. Using > > rshost is a security hole. > > Shachar, you make very valid points here.

Re: rsh ~/.rhosts file

2005-03-27 Thread Michael Green
On Sun, 27 Mar 2005 10:54:38 +0200, Karasik, Vitaly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You cannot use "+" instead of hostname in linux. that did it! thanks! -- Warm regards, Michael Green *^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^* Assistant Unix Admin Division of Information Systems Weizmann Institute of Scie

Re: rsh ~/.rhosts file

2005-03-27 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Michael Green wrote: I'm here to help them with whatever they need and if they need rsh to be more productive (one of their agruments) - so be it. Well, I'll just say this, and then drop the subject. The main reason people usually use rhosts is to allow login without entering a password. SSH g

Re: rsh ~/.rhosts file

2005-03-27 Thread Michael Green
On Sun, 27 Mar 2005 10:58:31 +0200, Shachar Shemesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > First, let me state what should, by now, be obvious to anyone. Using > rshost is a security hole. Shachar, you make very valid points here. Thank you. In fact I realize very well (I hope I do) all the risks involved

Re: rsh ~/.rhosts file

2005-03-27 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Michael Green wrote: On UNIX users can have their personal .rhosts files which lists users that are allowed to login into the account, in the form: silver:~->2% cat .rhosts + michaelg + foobar First, let me state what should, by now, be obvious to anyone. Using rshost is a security hole. it is

RE: rsh ~/.rhosts file

2005-03-27 Thread Karasik, Vitaly
You cannot use "+" instead of hostname in linux. Rgds, Vitaly -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael Green Sent: Sunday, March 27, 2005 10:37 AM To: ilug Subject: rsh ~/.rhosts file On UNIX users can have their personal .rhosts files w