Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-security (206 mails)

[Hubert Mantel <mantel@xxxxxxx>]

Hi,

On Mon, Jun 19, Keith Warno wrote:

> Yes.  This is the trick.  And it's an old one.
>
> For example, paranoid sysadmins that don't like .rhosts will (as root)
> create a .rhosts _directory_ in a user's $HOME, throw an empty file in there
> (eg, touch ~user/.rhosts/noremove), then chmod 0 it.

What is this good for?

The user just types "mv .rhosts .trash"

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