On Wed, 28 May 1997, Joey Hess wrote:
> Martin Schulze:
> > rwhod distributes it's information on _every_ interface which is
> > broadcastable. This includes loopback and eth0, and also sl0 and I
> > suppose ppp0, too. So if you run rwhod you should start it before
> > your link is up and before i
Martin Schulze:
> rwhod distributes it's information on _every_ interface which is
> broadcastable. This includes loopback and eth0, and also sl0 and I
> suppose ppp0, too. So if you run rwhod you should start it before
> your link is up and before it notices that there are some more
> broadcasta
Hamish Moffatt writes:
> On Tue, May 27, 1997 at 03:55:49PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> > I just discovered rwhod, ruptime, rusers, etc, in the netstd package.
> >
> > Is there any reason why rwhod is not run in the /etc/init.d/netstd_misc
> > script? (I see it's commented out.) Security concerns, e
> Martin Schulze:
> > I believe there are security concerns. Via rwho protocol your machine
> > distributes information on who is logged in. So you are able to play
> > big brother and generate personal profiles for instance.
[..]
>
> Since broadcast packets shouldn't leave your local network, I
On Tue, May 27, 1997 at 03:55:49PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> I just discovered rwhod, ruptime, rusers, etc, in the netstd package.
>
> Is there any reason why rwhod is not run in the /etc/init.d/netstd_misc
> script? (I see it's commented out.) Security concerns, etc?
Well, I enabled it and it ke
Martin Schulze:
> Would you like to define "local network" please?
I just meant wherever rwhod's broadcast packets get to.
> Just to tell you what I mean:
>
> My "local network" (although it consists of 14 parts) is located
> in a student's home and consists of both Infodrom Oldenburg
> (*.infod
Joey Hess writes:
> > I believe there are security concerns. Via rwho protocol your machine
> > distributes information on who is logged in. So you are able to play
> > big brother and generate personal profiles for instance.
>
> According to the man page:
>
> Rwhod operates as both a pro
Martin Schulze:
> I believe there are security concerns. Via rwho protocol your machine
> distributes information on who is logged in. So you are able to play
> big brother and generate personal profiles for instance.
According to the man page:
Rwhod operates as both a producer and consume
Joey Hess writes:
> I just discovered rwhod, ruptime, rusers, etc, in the netstd package.
>
> Is there any reason why rwhod is not run in the /etc/init.d/netstd_misc
> script? (I see it's commented out.) Security concerns, etc?
I believe there are security concerns. Via rwho protocol your machin
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