On Wed, 15 Dec 1999, Eugene wrote about, Re: Remote hosts file:
> Thank you Jack, Chris, Lawson and everybody else who
> have replied but whose messages I haven't seen yet!
> Thanks for the information!
> You were a big help.
>
> Chris wrote that ~/.rhosts is a dangerous file in
> terms of security, which is true in general, but I am
> not going to allow everyone in: "come, play around
> with my system!" This file is to be used by a special
> group of trusted domains or single machines, so there
> is nothing to worry about, in this case.
Any readable file on any system thats world readable and in this case
writeable if i read up correctly, then its a security risk, it does not
matter if its a small local lan or a wide open box, someone will exploit
your machine.
> Thanks again.
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> Eugene
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