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Old 09-05-2011
hosts.equiv - Entries
Hi,

I have found such these entries in the hosts.equiv file in the AIX (6.1/5.3):


root host123

oracle host5487


Please tell the risks? Can these hosts enter the system without passwords??
should these entries be removed?

Thanks
Naveed
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Old 09-05-2011
Depending on the settings, it allows ids on two systems to be considered the same, trusted, but on every system I used, you still needed ~/.rhosts to make it work of any account. ssh and keys with no password is much safer.
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