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32.\" $FreeBSD$
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34.Dd February 11, 1996
35.Dt HOSTS.EQUIV 5
36.Os FreeBSD
37.Sh NAME
38.Nm hosts.equiv ,
39.Nm .rhosts
40.Nd trusted remote host and user name data base
41.Sh DESCRIPTION
42The
43.Nm
44and
45.Nm .rhosts
46files contain information regarding
47trusted hosts and users on the network.
48For each host a single line should be present
49with the following information:
50.Pp
51simple
52.Bd -unfilled -offset indent
53hostname [username]
54.Ed
55.Pp
56or the more verbose
57.Bd -unfilled -offset indent
58[+-][hostname|@netgroup] [[+-][username|@netgroup]]
59.Ed
60.Pp
61A
62.Dq @
63indicates a host by netgroup or user by netgroup.
64A single
65.Dq +
66matches all hosts or users.  A host name with a leading
67.Dq -
68will reject
69all matching hosts and all their users.
70A user name with leading
71.Dq -
72will reject all matching users from matching hosts.
73.Pp
74Items are separated by any number of blanks and/or
75tab characters.  A
76.Dq #
77indicates the beginning of
78a comment; characters up to the end of the line are
79not interpreted by routines which search the file.
80.Pp
81Host names are specified in the conventional
82.Dq .\&
83(dot) notation using the
84.Xr inet_addr 3
85routine
86from the Internet address manipulation library,
87.Xr inet 3 .
88Host names may contain any printable
89character other than a field delimiter, newline,
90or comment character.
91.Pp
92For security reasons, a user's
93.Nm .rhosts
94file will be ignored if it is not a regular file, or if it
95is not owned by the user, or
96if it is writable by anyone other than the user.
97.Sh EXAMPLES
98.Pp
99.Dl bar.com foo
100.Pp
101Trust user
102.Dq foo
103from host
104.Dq bar.com .
105.Pp
106.Dl +@allclient
107.Pp
108Trust all hosts from netgroup
109.Dq allclient .
110.Pp
111.Dl +@allclient -@dau
112.Pp
113Trust all hosts from netgroup
114.Dq allclient
115and their users
116except users from netgroup
117.Dq dau .
118.Sh FILES
119.Bl -tag -width /etc/hosts.equivxxx -compact
120.It Pa /etc/hosts.equiv
121The
122.Nm
123file resides in
124.Pa /etc .
125.It Pa $HOME/.rhosts
126.Nm .rhosts
127file resides in
128.Pa $HOME .
129.El
130.Sh SEE ALSO
131.Xr rcp 1 ,
132.Xr rlogin 1 ,
133.Xr rsh 1 ,
134.Xr gethostbyname 3 ,
135.Xr inet 3 ,
136.Xr innetgr 3 ,
137.Xr ruserok 3 ,
138.Xr yp 4 ,
139.Xr ifconfig 8 ,
140.Xr named 8
141.Sh BUGS
142This man page is incomplete.
143For more information read
144the source in
145.Pa src/lib/libc/net/rcmd.c
146or the SunOS man page.
147