From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 26 17:26:49 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E397153F4 for ; Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:26:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA22277; Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:26:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:26:41 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: "Abraham J. Stephens" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: executing rsh commands on a FreeBSD 2.2.1 box. In-Reply-To: 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 Mon, 26 Apr 1999, Abraham J. Stephens wrote: > I have several servers on a network, two FreeBSD boxes (aasis and fs) and > one Solaris 7 box (student). > > I have three identical users, one on each machine. The user's home > directory and his .rhosts file is mounted from a single fileserver on each > machine. Let me be frank: rsh sucks. :-) Use ssh instead. It's much, *much* more secure and doesn't have this type of silly host-based authentication. Versions exist for most UNIX versions, including FreeBSD and Solaris. Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message