rhosts(4N)                                             rhosts(4N)



     NAME
          rhosts - trusted hosts file format

     DESCRIPTION
          The login directory for each user can contain a .rhosts file
          that  enumerates  remote  hosts  having  equivalent  account
          names.  (The hosts names  must  be  the  standard  names  as
          described in remsh(1N)).

          Each line in this file should contain a rhost and a username
          separated by a space, allowing additional cases where logins
          without passwords are to be permitted.

          When you rlogin as the same user on an equivalent host,  you
          don't need to give a password.

          To avoid security problems, the .rhosts file must  be  owned
          by  either the remote user or root.  Note that, for security
          reasons, root is an exception to the above; a  superuser  on
          an equivalent host must still supply the password to remote-
          ly login as root unless the root account has its own private
          equivalence  list  in  a file .rhosts in the root directory.
          Note that a .rhosts file for the root account is not  recom-
          mended where secure systems are required.

          Your remote terminal type is the same as your local terminal
          type  (as  given  in  your  environment TERM variable).  See
          rlogin(1N) for other details concerning the line  discipline
          and escape characters.

     FILES
          /home-directory/.rhosts

     SEE ALSO
          remsh(1N), rlogin(1N).




















     April, 1990                                                     1