~/.rhosts: put my username in there too?

[Dan_Jacobson at ATT.COM]

>>>>> On Sun, 28 Oct 90 21:54:13 +0100, birger at eik.ii.uib.no said:

birger> I'm unable to post, so i mail you an answer to your question.

birger> If you know that your user-number (uid) is the same on all
birger> hosts (e.g. use of YP/NIS or other way of sharing passwd file)
birger> then you don't need your username in the file.

birger> if user foo is user number 200 on host alpha, 300 on host
birger> beta, a .rhosts file on beta saying just "alpha" won't be good
birger> enough for foo to rlogin, even if he uses "rlogin beta -l
birger> foo".

[hmm, mine seems to map on usernames, not id's]

birger> If user bar on alpha is user 200, then bar would be able to
birger> say "rlogin beta" and get logged in as foo.

[you mean 300[?], Mine still maps on usernames.]

birger> The morale is: If the passwd list is distributed (e.g. you
birger> don't need -l option for rlogin) then just hostname is secure.

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