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30.Dd December 25, 2013
31.Dt HOSTS.EQUIV 5
32.Os
33.Sh NAME
34.Nm hosts.equiv ,
35.Nm .rhosts
36.Nd trusted remote host and user name data base
37.Sh DESCRIPTION
38The
39.Nm
40and
41.Nm .rhosts
42files contain information regarding
43trusted hosts and users on the network.
44For each host a single line should be present
45with the following information:
46.Pp
47simple
48.Bd -unfilled -offset indent
49hostname [username]
50.Ed
51.Pp
52or the more verbose
53.Bd -unfilled -offset indent
54[+-][hostname|@netgroup] [[+-][username|@netgroup]]
55.Ed
56.Pp
57A
58.Dq @
59indicates a host by netgroup or user by netgroup.
60A single
61.Dq +
62matches all hosts or users.
63A host name with a leading
64.Dq -
65will reject
66all matching hosts and all their users.
67A user name with leading
68.Dq -
69will reject all matching users from matching hosts.
70.Pp
71Items are separated by any number of blanks and/or
72tab characters.
73A
74.Dq #
75indicates the beginning of
76a comment; characters up to the end of the line are
77not interpreted by routines which search the file.
78.Pp
79Host names are specified in the conventional Internet DNS
80dotted-domains
81.Dq .\&
82(dot) notation using the
83.Xr inet_addr 3
84routine
85from the Internet address manipulation library,
86.Xr inet 3 .
87Host names may contain any printable
88character other than a field delimiter, newline,
89or comment character.
90.Pp
91For security reasons, a user's
92.Nm .rhosts
93file will be ignored if it is not a regular file, or if it
94is not owned by the user, or
95if it is writable by anyone other than the user.
96.Sh FILES
97.Bl -tag -width /etc/hosts.equivxxx -compact
98.It Pa /etc/hosts.equiv
99The
100.Nm
101file resides in
102.Pa /etc .
103.It Pa $HOME/.rhosts
104.Nm .rhosts
105file resides in
106.Pa $HOME .
107.El
108.Sh EXAMPLES
109.Dl bar.com foo
110.Pp
111Trust user
112.Dq foo
113from host
114.Dq bar.com .
115.Pp
116.Dl +@allclient
117.Pp
118Trust all hosts from netgroup
119.Dq allclient .
120.Pp
121.Dl +@allclient -@dau
122.Pp
123Trust all hosts from netgroup
124.Dq allclient
125and their users
126except users from netgroup
127.Dq dau .
128.Sh SEE ALSO
129.Xr rcp 1 ,
130.Xr rlogin 1 ,
131.Xr rsh 1 ,
132.Xr gethostbyname 3 ,
133.Xr inet 3 ,
134.Xr innetgr 3 ,
135.Xr ruserok 3 ,
136.Xr netgroup 5 ,
137.Xr ifconfig 8 ,
138.Xr yp 8
139.Sh BUGS
140This manual page is incomplete.
141For more information read
142the source in
143.Pa src/lib/libc/net/rcmd.c
144or the SunOS manual page.
145