~/.rhosts: put my username in there too?

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From: Dan_Jacobson
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 1990 21:30

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I heard that a line like
        durian.rambutan.edu     asamjawa
is more secure than a line like
        durian.rambutan.edu
in my $HOME/.rhosts file ...supposedly protecting against rlogin -l
attacks.  But I feel protected already and see no added effect.  (And
yes, both don't thwart someone with the root passwd on another
machine coming into durian.rambutan.edu impersonating me).  (I'm on
SunOS 4.0.3 etc.).
-- 
Dan_Jacobson@ATT.COM  Naperville IL USA  +1 708-979-6364

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From: Dan_Jacobson@ATT.COM
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell,alt.sys.sun,alt.security
Subject: ~/.rhosts: put my username in there too?
Message-ID: <1990Oct23.213026.15621@cbnewse.att.com>
Date: 23 Oct 90 21:30:26 GMT
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