bin owning files
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Fri Nov 18 08:33:08 AEST 1988
In article <566 at comdesign.CDI.COM> pst at comdesign.cdi.com (Paul Traina) writes:
> I'd like bin to own system executables, but I'm worried about
> the fact that /bin is covered by /etc/hosts.equiv, so if a user
> su'ed to bin on one machine, he could rlogin/rsh to another machine
> and change anything owned by bin.
I haven't tried this, but the manual says that the user's .rhosts file is
read BEFORE rhosts.equiv. So you should be able to put a .rhosts in
bin's home directory, and configure it to deny rlogin/rsh to all hosts.
This should override the general permissions in hosts.equiv.
Dan Messinger
dan at ernie.rosemount.com
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