/etc/hosts.equiv file

[John_Stewart at CARLETON.CA]

I would like to modify our /etc/hosts.equiv files so that only hosts
within our YP domain are trusted.  Having a '+' record in the file is too
liberal because it results in all machines on our campus ethernet being
trusted.

After reading the Sun manuals, I can only conclude that Sun hasn't given
much thought to the problems in maintaining /etc/hosts.equiv.  There
appears to be no way to say "trust all machines in your YP domain".  The
only solution seems to be to list each individual host in the file which
means the file has to be modified each time a machine is added/removed
from your YP domain.  Since /etc/hosts.equiv isn't one of the files served
by YP, there is no easy way to change every copy in your YP domain.

I would be interested in hearing (by mail) what other people are doing to
maintain their /etc/hosts.equiv files.  If I get any particularily
inspiring responses, I will summarize and post to sun-spots.

Regards... jas <John_Stewart at carleton.ca>