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
Hm wow looks like it's good for nothing! simple little mv goes unnoticed by
me and the professor who originally told me about that trick.
ah well.
kw
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From: "Hubert Mantel"
(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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