Hello Nikola, On 01/04/2016 05:18 PM, Nikola Forró wrote: > The list of conditions determining if iruserok() and ruserok() > functions automatically fail is incomplete. According to glibc > source code, the functions also fail if the .rhosts file > is hardlinked anywhere. Just to better document the patch, could you point to the relevant location in the glibc source code? Thanks, Michael > --- > man3/rcmd.3 | 4 ++-- > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/man3/rcmd.3 b/man3/rcmd.3 > index 33eae3c..f32fe52 100644 > --- a/man3/rcmd.3 > +++ b/man3/rcmd.3 > @@ -200,8 +200,8 @@ in the local user's home directory is checked to see if the request for > service is allowed. > .PP > If this file does not exist, is not a regular file, is owned by anyone > -other than the user or the superuser, or is writable by anyone other > -than the owner, the check automatically fails. > +other than the user or the superuser, is writable by anyone other > +than the owner, or is hardlinked anywhere, the check automatically fails. > Zero is returned if the machine name is listed in the > .IR hosts.equiv > file, or the host and remote username are found in the > -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
