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2002 Mar 29
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Non-interactive root access via hostbased using shosts.equiv
...0. It
is possible to get around this by setting
"IgnoreRhosts" to no, and putting a .shosts file in
the root directory, but this has the highly undesired
side-effect of allowing users to create their own
.rhosts/.shosts files as well.
I modified the source to provide a new option
"PermitRootViaHostBased" that would permit the desired
behavior, while leaving the default behavior as-is.
But there is apparently some reluctance to add these
changes to the official source tree.
I've also suggested making the change conditional via
#ifdef blocks, but this has also met with resistance.
As thi...