Hi,
after much trying and code-digging I found that hostbased authentication
for root is handled differently than for other users. This is from
auth-rhosts.c:
236 /*
237 * If not logging in as superuser, try /etc/hosts.equiv and
238 * shosts.equiv.
239 */
240 if (pw->pw_uid == 0)
241 debug3_f("root user, ignoring system hosts files");
242 else {
This behavior is apparently not documented anywhere, and I just cannot
think of a reason why this is done. Can someone enlighten me?
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