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Why doesn .rhosts work?

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Why doesn .rhosts work?

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Using ~/.rhosts is felt to be a substantial security problem, and is not enabled on the departmental machines. Also, rlogin and rcp have been disabled on our machines in favor of ssh and scp. We strongly suggest you use ssh instead.

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