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40 .Nd trusted remote host and user name data base
46 files contain information regarding
47 trusted hosts and users on the network.
48 For each host a single line should be present
49 with the following information:
52 .Bd -unfilled -offset indent
57 .Bd -unfilled -offset indent
58 [+-][hostname|@netgroup] [[+-][username|@netgroup]]
63 indicates a host by netgroup or user by netgroup.
66 matches all hosts or users. A host name with a leading
69 all matching hosts and all their users.
70 A user name with leading
72 will reject all matching users from matching hosts.
74 Items are separated by any number of blanks and/or
77 indicates the beginning of
78 a comment; characters up to the end of the line are
79 not interpreted by routines which search the file.
81 Host names are specified in the conventional
83 (dot) notation using the
86 from the Internet address manipulation library,
88 Host names may contain any printable
89 character other than a field delimiter, newline,
92 For security reasons, a user's
94 file will be ignored if it is not a regular file, or if it
95 is not owned by the user, or
96 if it is writable by anyone other than the user.
107 Trust all hosts from netgroup
110 .Dl +@allclient -@dau
112 Trust all hosts from netgroup
115 except users from netgroup
118 .Bl -tag -width /etc/hosts.equivxxx -compact
119 .It Pa /etc/hosts.equiv
133 .Xr gethostbyname 3 ,
141 This man page is incomplete.
142 For more information read
144 .Pa src/lib/libc/net/rcmd.c
145 or the SunOS man page.