rhosts(4)                                                  rhosts(4)


       NAME
             rhosts - remote equivalent users

       SYNOPSIS
             $HOME/.rhosts

       DESCRIPTION
             rhosts files grant permission for remote users to use local
             user names without knowing the corresponding user passwords.
             This is known as making the remote user ``equivalent'' to the
             local user, and is convenient, for example, when someone owns
             user names on more than one host.

          Files
             /etc/hosts.equiv

       USAGE
             If a user's home directory contains a file named .rhosts, the
             remote users specified in the file are equivalent to the local
             user.

             Each user specification in the .rhosts file consists of a
             remote host name and a user name, separated by white space.
             Note that, if an asterisk is substituted for either name, any
             host name or user name will match.

             For security reasons, .rhosts must belong to the user granting
             the equivalence, or to root.

          hosts.equiv File
             The file /etc/hosts.equiv is a list of remote hosts with
             matching-name equivalence.  The file lists remote hosts one
             per line.  On each host listed in /etc/hosts.equiv, a remote
             user with the same name as a local user is equivalent to the
             local user.  In effect, the users are the same if the names
             are the same.

       REFERENCES
             hosts.equiv(4), rcmd(3N), rcp(1), rlogin(1)









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