From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 29 23:32:35 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id XAA11617 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 29 Oct 1996 23:32:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id XAA11611 for ; Tue, 29 Oct 1996 23:32:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id XAA00814; Tue, 29 Oct 1996 23:32:37 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1996 23:32:37 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Mike Salmons cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: rcp by root In-Reply-To: <199610281641.IAA22718@knuth.plaza.ds.adp.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 28 Oct 1996, Mike Salmons wrote: > I can't setup my system to allow root to rcp from another freebsd system, it > works ok as a user. I have a /.rhosts and a /etc/hosts.equiv file with the > remote system listed. What else am I missing? This is probably a huge security violation since anyone with the root password now has root access your computer too (using rsh & the other r-utilities). Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major