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35.Dd February 11, 1996
36.Dt HOSTS.EQUIV 5
37.Os
38.Sh NAME
39.Nm hosts.equiv ,
40.Nm .rhosts
41.Nd trusted remote host and user name data base
42.Sh DESCRIPTION
43The
44.Nm
45and
46.Nm .rhosts
47files contain information regarding
48trusted hosts and users on the network.
49For each host a single line should be present
50with the following information:
51.Pp
52simple
53.Bd -unfilled -offset indent
54hostname [username]
55.Ed
56.Pp
57or the more verbose
58.Bd -unfilled -offset indent
59[+-][hostname|@netgroup] [[+-][username|@netgroup]]
60.Ed
61.Pp
62A
63.Dq @
64indicates a host by netgroup or user by netgroup.
65A single
66.Dq +
67matches all hosts or users.  A host name with a leading
68.Dq -
69will reject
70all matching hosts and all their users.
71A user name with leading
72.Dq -
73will reject all matching users from matching hosts.
74.Pp
75Items are separated by any number of blanks and/or
76tab characters.  A
77.Dq #
78indicates the beginning of
79a comment; characters up to the end of the line are
80not interpreted by routines which search the file.
81.Pp
82Host names are specified in the conventional
83.Dq .\&
84(dot) notation using the
85.Xr inet_addr 3
86routine
87from the Internet address manipulation library,
88.Xr inet 3 .
89Host names may contain any printable
90character other than a field delimiter, newline,
91or comment character.
92.Pp
93For security reasons, a user's
94.Nm .rhosts
95file will be ignored if it is not a regular file, or if it
96is not owned by the user, or
97if it is writable by anyone other than the user.
98.Sh EXAMPLES
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 ifconfig 8 ,
139.Xr named 8 ,
140.Xr yp 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