🚀 go-pugleaf

In article Jyu@avalon.nwc.navy.mil, dejesus@archimedes.nwc.navy.mil (Francisco X DeJesus) writes:
>In article <1992Dec9.173938.8706@nntp.hut.fi> jkp@cs.HUT.FI (Jyrki Kuoppala) writes:
>
>Still, doesn't rusers (and rup, rlogin, rsh, etc) require a hostname? If
>they don't work with IP addresses (they way finger/telnet can) then their
>use is restricted if the machine you are trying to "probe" isn't registered.
>Anyone know of a way around this (other than making a local entry in your
>hosts file)?
>

rusers the program does require a hostname, although the rusers (RPC)
protocol does not.  If you have written an RPC program it is fairly
trivial to rewrite the rusers command to accept IP addresses.  I
suspect that rlogin and rsh have a similar problem, although they are
not RPC programs.  It should just be a simple matter of getting the
source and modifying it to accept IP addresses.

For another approach, some vendor's systems support an environment
variable that can be set to the pathname of a "local" host table.  This
allows users to augment the hostname lookups to include all of their
favorites...

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Paul (Cliffy) Palmer