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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!sunic!isgate!veda.is!adam From: adam@veda.is (Adam David) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Subject: Re: rlogin localhost (security hole) Message-ID: <C66z8C.2G8@veda.is> Date: 28 Apr 93 11:43:09 GMT References: <1993Apr27.191444.29243@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de> <C65xo9.Et@veda.is> <1993Apr28.015440.5692@oz.plymouth.edu> Organization: Veda Systems, Iceland Lines: 14 ted@oz.plymouth.edu (The Wizard of Oz) writes: >>$ rlogin localhost >>localhost: Undefined error: 0 > I tried this, no problem for me. Perhaps you do not have >you system configured properly. It was a problem with the nameserver configuration. Localhost and 127.0.0.1 were incorrectly mapped. I am still surprised that a nameserver problem should be able to make rlogind dump core. -- Adam D. (adam@veda.is)