Why can't my other machines see my Debian box (rwhod)

2001-10-25 Thread Stan Brown
I have set up a debian potato machine + 2.4.9 kernel on a network at work. I have various other non Linux )HP-IX Solaris, FreeBSD) machines on this same subnet. All of them can see each other's rwhod broadcasts. And the debian machine can see thiers. However, the other machines can'

Re: rwhod

1997-05-29 Thread Craig Sanders
On Wed, 28 May 1997, Joey Hess wrote: > Martin Schulze: > > rwhod distributes it's information on _every_ interface which is > > broadcastable. This includes loopback and eth0, and also sl0 and I > > suppose ppp0, too. So if you run rwhod you should start it before >

Re: rwhod

1997-05-28 Thread Joey Hess
Martin Schulze: > rwhod distributes it's information on _every_ interface which is > broadcastable. This includes loopback and eth0, and also sl0 and I > suppose ppp0, too. So if you run rwhod you should start it before > your link is up and before it notices that th

Re: rwhod

1997-05-28 Thread Martin Schulze
Hamish Moffatt writes: > On Tue, May 27, 1997 at 03:55:49PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > > I just discovered rwhod, ruptime, rusers, etc, in the netstd package. > > > > Is there any reason why rwhod is not run in the /etc/init.d/netstd_misc > > script? (I see it's c

Re: rwhod

1997-05-28 Thread joost witteveen
> Martin Schulze: > > I believe there are security concerns. Via rwho protocol your machine > > distributes information on who is logged in. So you are able to play > > big brother and generate personal profiles for instance. [..] > > Since broadcast packets shouldn't leave your local network, I

Re: rwhod

1997-05-28 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, May 27, 1997 at 03:55:49PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > I just discovered rwhod, ruptime, rusers, etc, in the netstd package. > > Is there any reason why rwhod is not run in the /etc/init.d/netstd_misc > script? (I see it's commented out.) Security concerns, etc? Well, I

Re: rwhod

1997-05-27 Thread Joey Hess
home and consists of both Infodrom Oldenburg > (*.infodrom.north.de) and the student's LAN. There are about 70 > machines here at the moment, including a Debian development machine > soon. > > Using rwhod I as a user of rwho and ruptime am able to see when > people get up and work

Re: rwhod

1997-05-27 Thread Martin Schulze
Joey Hess writes: > > I believe there are security concerns. Via rwho protocol your machine > > distributes information on who is logged in. So you are able to play > > big brother and generate personal profiles for instance. > > According to the man page: > >

Re: rwhod

1997-05-27 Thread Joey Hess
Martin Schulze: > I believe there are security concerns. Via rwho protocol your machine > distributes information on who is logged in. So you are able to play > big brother and generate personal profiles for instance. According to the man page: Rwhod operates as both a pro

Re: rwhod

1997-05-27 Thread Martin Schulze
Joey Hess writes: > I just discovered rwhod, ruptime, rusers, etc, in the netstd package. > > Is there any reason why rwhod is not run in the /etc/init.d/netstd_misc > script? (I see it's commented out.) Security concerns, etc? I believe there are security concerns. Via r

rwhod

1997-05-27 Thread Joey Hess
I just discovered rwhod, ruptime, rusers, etc, in the netstd package. Is there any reason why rwhod is not run in the /etc/init.d/netstd_misc script? (I see it's commented out.) Security concerns, etc? -- see shy jo -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsub