Installing 4.3-Tahoe on a VAX

[Larry Wall]

In article <5416 at zodiac.UUCP> jordan at ads.com (Jordan Hayes) writes:
: Keith Bostic <bostic at BERKELEY.EDU> writes:
: 
: 	Since you can't log in as "bin" (it has no password) this
: 	shouldn't be an issue.
: 
: Yes, but root equivalence is governed by /.rhosts, but "bin" equiv.  is
: governed by /etc/hosts.equiv ... and we all know that "rsh csh -i" is
: as good as "rlogin" for most tasks ...

Not to mention NFS.  You let me mount a /usr filesystem read/write with
directories owned by "bin" and you've just destroyed any semblance of
security.  Not that NFS is all that secure to begin with...

Larry Wall
lwall at jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov