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37 .Nd trusted remote host and user name data base
43 files contain information regarding
44 trusted hosts and users on the network.
45 For each host a single line should be present
46 with the following information:
49 .Bd -unfilled -offset indent
54 .Bd -unfilled -offset indent
55 [+-][hostname|@netgroup] [[+-][username|@netgroup]]
60 indicates a host by netgroup or user by netgroup.
63 matches all hosts or users. A host name with a leading
66 all matching hosts and all their users.
67 A user name with leading
69 will reject all matching users from matching hosts.
71 Items are separated by any number of blanks and/or
74 indicates the beginning of
75 a comment; characters up to the end of the line are
76 not interpreted by routines which search the file.
78 Host names are specified in the conventional
80 (dot) notation using the
83 from the Internet address manipulation library,
85 Host names may contain any printable
86 character other than a field delimiter, newline,
89 For security reasons, a user's
91 file will be ignored if it is not a regular file, or if it
92 is not owned by the user, or
93 if it is writable by anyone other than the user.
95 .Bl -tag -width /etc/hosts.equivxxx -compact
96 .It Pa /etc/hosts.equiv
116 Trust all hosts from netgroup
119 .Dl +@allclient -@dau
121 Trust all hosts from netgroup
124 except users from netgroup
130 .Xr gethostbyname 3 ,
138 This man page is incomplete.
139 For more information read
141 .Pa src/lib/libc/net/rcmd.c
142 or the SunOS man page.