CVS update: samba/source/lib

Andrew Bartlett abartlet at pcug.org.au
Thu Sep 20 16:15:16 EST 2001


Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> 
> 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?

The other option is just documentation:  You need to enable dns lookups
for rhosts support.

Andrew Bartlett

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