> On Wed, 12 Aug 1998, Anthony Barbachan wrote:
>
> > Try the sudo package. It works great.
> >
> > Also as an alternative you can use rsh/rlogin.
> >
> > edit /root/.rhosts
> > add:
> >
> > localhost username
> >
> >
> >
> > make sure rshd rlogind have the -h parameter in /etc/inetd.conf
> >
> >
> > using rsh/rlogin the user can rsh or rlogin as the root user locally
>
> rsh/rlogin are IMHO major security holes in a system. I would
> never run rlogind/rshd on a networked system unless it was a
> totally trusted private network. Even then, ssh is much better
> of a shell as it provides security and encryption.
>
they're talking about doing an 'rlogin localhost'. I dont think you would
need to encrypt communications over the loopback interface, would you? ;)
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