Hi there,
I would like to ask about /etc/hosts.equiv and .rhosts) and the trust relations. And the impact of poorly-configured trusted relationship.
With a poorly configured set of files, you can open yourself up to unhindered intrusion. Sadly I once inherited an application that relied on the source IP address of a connection be secure and we had all sorts of spaghetti to get the thing to work when someone new joined or worse, someone moved desk, usually without telling us. We did eventually get on top of it, but it was a long, hard slog.
Best plan is to avoid allowing anything that you are not absolutely certain of.
Individual .rhosts files can be useful but they can be abused so auditors do not like them.
What are you trying to achieve? There may be a better way altogether.
Robin
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