Bug 144653

Summary: hosts.equiv syntax in manpage won't work
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 Reporter: Daniel van Eeden <daniel_e>
Component: man-pagesAssignee: Ivana Varekova <varekova>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Ben Levenson <benl>
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Version: 3.0CC: kzak, poelstra, tmraz
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Fixed In Version: RHBA-2006-0424 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Description Daniel van Eeden 2005-01-10 11:43:49 UTC 
Description of problem:
The manpages of hosts.equiv states that a "+" prepended to a hostname
would allow access. But the example in
/usr/share/doc/pam-0.75/README.pam_rhosts only uses hostnames. The
rsh-server package uses pam_rhosts.
It does work if there is only a "+" in /etc/hosts.equiv but not if a
hostname is appended to it. (it works w/o the +)
I'd use the promiscouos option in /etc/pam.d/rsh

Possible fix #1:
Change the manpage of hosts.equiv (just add a notice in the bugs section)

Possible fix #2:
Change pam_rhosts to allow the "+ server01.example.com" syntax.
Comment 13 Red Hat Bugzilla 2006-05-03 19:55:19 UTC 
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on the solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2006-0424.html