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From: ted@oz.plymouth.edu (The Wizard of Oz)
Subject: Re: rlogin localhost (security hole)
Message-ID: <1993Apr28.015440.5692@oz.plymouth.edu>
Organization: Plymouth State College - Plymouth, NH.
References: <1993Apr27.191444.29243@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de> <C65xo9.Et@veda.is>
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 93 01:54:40 GMT
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In article <C65xo9.Et@veda.is> adam@veda.is (Adam David) writes:
>schoenfr@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de (Erik Schoenfelder) writes:
>
>Possibly not related, it was brought to my attention that 'rlogin localhost'
>on a machine with an ethernet interface does the following:
>
>$ rlogin localhost
>localhost: Undefined error: 0
>

	I tried this, no problem for me.  Perhaps you do not have
you system configured properly.

				--> Ted


|   Ted Wisniewski    			INET:  ted@oz.plymouth.edu       |
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|   Plymouth NH, 03264                                                   |