CVS update: samba/source/lib

Andrew Bartlett abartlet at pcug.org.au
Thu Sep 20 16:07:51 EST 2001


tridge at samba.org wrote:
> 
> Date:   Wed Sep 12 17:30:39 2001
> Author: tridge
> 
> Update of /home/cvs/samba/source/lib
> In directory va:/tmp/cvs-serv22098
> 
> Modified Files:
>         util_sock.c
> Log Message:
> added a new global option "hostname lookups = yes/no"
> This should finally kill off the remaining places where we
> attempt reverse lookups of the IP of the client. It may be that some
> pam modules called via the session code will need "hostname lookups = yes"
> but I've left it off by default as most sites don't need it and so
> many sites have broken reverse maps

This broke rhosts and hosts equiv support.

How should this be dealt with?  From my reading .rhosts files should
contain a fully qualified domain name - and we can only match that with
a reverse lookup.

Or do we now declare rhosts dead?

Andrew Bartlett

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