Re: Informix Warehouse Accelerator Prerequisites

On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 4:08 AM, Ian Michael Gumby <im_gumby@hotmail.com>wrote: > IBM/Informix has in the past talked about using .rhosts and the hosts.equiv > . Has this changed? > Why are .rhosts and hosts.equiv bad? You're too young to remember Morris > and his worm... > You know... There is a thing called Internet that helps us youngsters to learn a bit about the past. But what you always deny each time we discuss this is to recognize that his famous worm took advantage of the widely spread usage of the infamous r* services. And what I keep asking and you never answer is why the hell are you running them, or if that is not the case, how is the /etc/hosts.equiv and .rhosts so insecure? And yes, since 11.70.FC2 you don't need to use those files. This isn't really off topic because Red raised a security question based on > something in IBM's documentation and choice in tools... > It's already clear that his concerns are based on incorrect assumptions. Regards -- Fernando Nunes Portugal http://informix-technology.blogspot.com My email works... but I don't check it frequently...