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28.Dd December 25, 2013
29.Dt HOSTS.EQUIV 5
30.Os
31.Sh NAME
32.Nm hosts.equiv ,
33.Nm .rhosts
34.Nd trusted remote host and user name data base
35.Sh DESCRIPTION
36The
37.Nm
38and
39.Nm .rhosts
40files contain information regarding
41trusted hosts and users on the network.
42For each host a single line should be present
43with the following information:
44.Pp
45simple
46.Bd -unfilled -offset indent
47hostname [username]
48.Ed
49.Pp
50or the more verbose
51.Bd -unfilled -offset indent
52[+-][hostname|@netgroup] [[+-][username|@netgroup]]
53.Ed
54.Pp
55A
56.Dq @
57indicates a host by netgroup or user by netgroup.
58A single
59.Dq +
60matches all hosts or users.
61A host name with a leading
62.Dq -
63will reject
64all matching hosts and all their users.
65A user name with leading
66.Dq -
67will reject all matching users from matching hosts.
68.Pp
69Items are separated by any number of blanks and/or
70tab characters.
71A
72.Dq #
73indicates the beginning of
74a comment; characters up to the end of the line are
75not interpreted by routines which search the file.
76.Pp
77Host names are specified in the conventional Internet DNS
78dotted-domains
79.Dq .\&
80(dot) notation using the
81.Xr inet_addr 3
82routine
83from the Internet address manipulation library,
84.Xr inet 3 .
85Host names may contain any printable
86character other than a field delimiter, newline,
87or comment character.
88.Pp
89For security reasons, a user's
90.Nm .rhosts
91file will be ignored if it is not a regular file, or if it
92is not owned by the user, or
93if it is writable by anyone other than the user.
94.Sh FILES
95.Bl -tag -width /etc/hosts.equivxxx -compact
96.It Pa /etc/hosts.equiv
97The
98.Nm
99file resides in
100.Pa /etc .
101.It Pa $HOME/.rhosts
102.Nm .rhosts
103file resides in
104.Pa $HOME .
105.El
106.Sh EXAMPLES
107.Dl bar.com foo
108.Pp
109Trust user
110.Dq foo
111from host
112.Dq bar.com .
113.Pp
114.Dl +@allclient
115.Pp
116Trust all hosts from netgroup
117.Dq allclient .
118.Pp
119.Dl +@allclient -@dau
120.Pp
121Trust all hosts from netgroup
122.Dq allclient
123and their users
124except users from netgroup
125.Dq dau .
126.Sh SEE ALSO
127.Xr rcp 1 ,
128.Xr gethostbyname 3 ,
129.Xr inet 3 ,
130.Xr innetgr 3 ,
131.Xr ruserok 3 ,
132.Xr netgroup 5 ,
133.Xr ifconfig 8 ,
134.Xr yp 8
135.Sh BUGS
136This manual page is incomplete.
137For more information read
138the source in
139.Pa src/lib/libc/net/rcmd.c
140or the SunOS manual page.
141