Re: rmt, rcmd, /etc/hosts.equiv and .rhosts

2023-09-11 Thread Daniele B.
Thanks Philip for the answer. Indeed I just broke into the book Unix Unleashed by Robin Burk, and as the Unleashed series was also one of my first book for developers I ever studied to begin develop anything interesting over Internet... I strated to browse it on the Internet Archive where you can

Re: rmt, rcmd, /etc/hosts.equiv and .rhosts

2023-09-11 Thread Philip Guenther
On Sat, Sep 9, 2023 at 5:34 PM Daniele B. wrote: > Just investigating about /etc/hosts.equiv and ~/.rhosts and I was > quite serious to think that my system doesn't need both of them > I have not used a system in 30 years where /etc/hosts.equiv existed. I deleted my .rhosts when ssh was pre

rmt, rcmd, /etc/hosts.equiv and .rhosts

2023-09-09 Thread Daniele B.
Hello, Just investigating about /etc/hosts.equiv and ~/.rhosts and I was quite serious to think that my system doesn't need both of them I then start to look carefully my /etc and discovered a link that read like this: 0 lrwxrwx--- 1 root wheel 13 Mar 25 17:14 /etc/rmt -> /usr/sbin/rmt