Re: login: no shell: /bin/bash: Permission denied

[Peter Buckley <peter dot buckley at cportcorp dot com>]

> Regardless, to me it's still would be a large security hole if all one 
> needs to do is:
> 
> $ echo "+" > ~/.rhosts
> 
> to be able to abuse rsh to do something under somebody else's user ID is 
> it not?


rsh is inherently insecure. Attempts to make it secure are not 
worthwhile (in fact, they tend to break rsh). Especially in the land of 
NT insecurity, trying to make rsh secure simply makes it unusable.

HTH,
Peter


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