Re: ruserok() & /etc/hosts.equiv

[wietse () wzv win tue nl (Wietse Venema)]

Uwe Ellermann wrote:
> There is the "-l" option in the BSD sources, which does exactly this...
>
> ...but it's not supported on Sun and DEC UNIX. 
> It is in AIX (according to the man-page).
>
> To install this feature on SunOS, this is roughly what I have done:
> 1) got the BSD sources (available via anonFTP from ?)
> 2) compiled rlogind.c and rcmd.c (for ruserok())
> 3) installed with -l option
>
> This works for SunOS 4.1.x.
> On SunOS 5.3 I use a modified source from Wietse Venema's logdaemon-4.1
> (FTP: ftp.win.tue.nl or  
>       ftp.informatik.uni-hamburg.de: /pub/security/tools/net/logdaemon).

The logdaemon rshd/rlogind now have direct support for the '-l' option
to skip user .rhosts files. In addition, '+' wildcards are no longer
supported. All this should work with SunOS 4.x and 5.x, and Ultrix 4.x.

        Wietse