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In article <1992Dec12.010422.20706@lambda.msfc.nasa.gov>, palmer@Trade_Zone.msfc.nasa.gov (Paul (Cliffy) Palmer) writes:
> 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.

This is implementation-specific information you are passing on here.  My
rusers, rlogin, and rsh programs will happily accept an IP address as well as
fully qualified domain names.

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