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i've just been looking and i haven't found any either.  just to be cute i
linked ~root/.rhosts to /dev/null. ;)


yossman

On Mon, 28 Jul 1997, John Preisler wrote:

> 
> 
> I'm not convinced that FreeBSD installs a /root/.rhosts by default.
> None of my boxes have it.
> 
> -jrp
> 


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