From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0b; Windows 98) Description of problem: Chapter 8 of the RH7.1 Reference Guide has a section that deals with how to use rlogin, rsh and rexec with PAM. After following the instructions carefully, I found there were some pitfalls which might usefully be mentioned in a revision of the text. My suggestions are in the attachment. How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.- 2. 3. Additional info:
Created attachment 27733 [details] Suggestions for improvements
Thanks, we will work on improving this with your suggestions in the next round of the documentation and when our new technical writer begins.
Thank you so much for your suggestions. After reviewing the section you are refering to, I have decided to pull it from the book entirely. Setting up PAM to allow root access these services is just a really bad idea and I don't particularly see a value in this when OpenSSH can be used for the same purpose much more safely. Again, I want to thank you for the time you put into helping us improve our documentation. Thanks to folks like you, we are able to create documentation that more accurately accounts for the user's experiences in the field. Thanks, Johnray