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.rhosts files

Posted by: Vivek Khokhar in Linux

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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2 comments so far

1

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

June 13th, 2006 at 1:35 am

2

Excellent link in this regard:

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

July 13th, 2006 at 6:49 pm

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