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Subject: Re: login: no shell: /bin/bash: Permission denied
Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2002 15:03:02 -0800
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Peter Buckley wrote:

> 
>> 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.

What are you talking about?!? It's simple, if rsh is called with the -l 
parameter (assuming the it's not -l <current user>) then prompt for a 
password. If that's not doable then fail with an error message of some 
sort. But lord's sakes laddy! Don't just let them walk in! :-)




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