.rhosts vs. hosts.equiv

[Kimmo Suominen]

>>>>> On 10 Jan 91 15:29:06 GMT, aem at mthvax.cs.miami.edu (a.e.mossberg) said:
AEM> All .rhosts must be unreadable/unwritable by group and others [...]

>>>>> On 12 Jan 91 00:25:26 GMT, Dan_Jacobson at ATT.COM said:
Dan> -rw-r--r-- mode works fine for me.  Are you saying this for good taste
Dan> in security, or will something break otherwise?

That's the only way it works for me.  Additionally, I must have
x-permission to other (and I have it for group also) for my home
directory.  Otherwise I can't access hosts that have my home directory
mounted via NFS.  This is propably due to root being translated to
nobody over NFS-mounts.
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