jonathan@cs.keele.ac.uk (Jonathan Knight) (06/12/90)
From article <359@keele.keele.ac.uk>, by jonathan@cs.keele.ac.uk (Jonathan Knight):
> Today I tried to re-create the problem and couldn't.
Looks like it needs a period of inactivity on the sun concerned for
something to timeout and cause the problem. Here is the script
I ran a few moments ago. I start off as user 'jonathan' on machine 'derek'
Script started on Mon Jun 11 18:44:07 1990
You have mail.
% rsh ccsun4 -l csd35
Password:
Last login: Mon Jun 11 13:31:34 from derek
Sun UNIX 4.2 Release 3.5EXPORT (CCSUNCLIENT) #2: Fri Oct 6 11:36:07 GMT 1989
(Large motd that's about a month out of date)
ccsun4% cat .rhosts
cat: read error: Permission denied
ccsun4% ls -l .rhosts
-rw------- 1 csd35 313 Jan 29 15:12 .rhosts
ccsun4% whoami
csd35
ccsun4% cat .rhosts
cat: read error: Permission denied
ccsun4% touch unknown_file
ccsun4% cat .rhosts
derek jonathan
...
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... (suppressed for reasons of security)
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