Re: Directory Permissions

[steve () ecf toronto edu (Steve Kotsopoulos)]

Paul "Shag" Walmsley <ccshag () everest cclabs missouri edu> wrote:

> I just thought I ought to put in a word here for the IRIX admins among 
> us: IRIX's rshd can be prevented from reading .rhosts files if the -l 
> switch is used.  
>
> (This is on IRIX 5; I don't remember whether IRIX 4 supports the same 
> behavior)

... and a note of caution: rlogind under IRIX has the same option
(according to the manual), but it is BROKEN. SGI is aware of this bug.

        Steve