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Invocation of Anonymous RCP

The remote client's rcp command invokes the rcp command on the netlib server machines via the remote shell service (rshd). rshd on the Netlib machines has been specially modified to accept the following syntax in .rhosts files:

The .rhosts file for user anon on the netlib machines currently consists of the following line:


* *

The rshd program defines the environment variables REMOTE_HOSTand REMOTE_USERfor use by programs that it runs.


browne@utkcs.cs.utk.edu
Thu Aug 25 09:07:23 EDT 1994