From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 20 15:22:26 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA26599 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 20 Jul 1998 15:22:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA26589 for ; Mon, 20 Jul 1998 15:22:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.8) with SMTP id PAA06896; Mon, 20 Jul 1998 15:20:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1998 15:20:43 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: "sysadmin@mfn.org" cc: "'-Questions'" Subject: RE: rdist oddity In-Reply-To: <01BDB10C.1FA45830@noc.mfn.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 16 Jul 1998, sysadmin@mfn.org wrote: > Oh yes, the magic word is there, BUT... > > (1) I feel like an IDIOT about the rdist: my .rhosts wasn't mode 600. And > of course enabling world-read/write while "tracking it down" didn't help > either 8-> I could just hit myself in the head with a *pipe*!!! :) > (2) I come from an SVR3/4 background, as you know, and I'm not > used to having 3 files associated with my users: passwd, master.passwd, > and pw.db (I may have that last one wrong, but you know what I mean). Chant the mantra: vipw, vipw, vipw .... Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message