Script to look for .rhosts file in every home directory

[Nancy Calderon]

Hello team,

I'm not used to scripting, could you give me some ideas to look for .rhosts file in every home directory of the server?

It's running HPUX 11.00.

Thanks in advance.

[Pete Randall · Accepted solution]

try this:

find /home -name .rhosts


Pete

[Pete Randall]

or even just

ll /home/*/.rhosts


Pete

[Mel Burslan]

for homedir in `cat /etc/passwd | cut -d: -f6`
do
ls ${homedir}/.rhosts > /dev/null 2>&1
result=${?}
if [ $result -eq 0 ]
then
echo "+++$homedir has a .rhosts file"
else
echo "---$homedir doesn't have a .rhosts file"
fi
done

hope this helps.

[Nancy Calderon]

Thanks a lot Pete! sometimes simplier is better.

[Mel Burslan]

Nancy,

there are some oddball user names which come with some application installations, requiring their home directories to be somewhere outside /home, which may not be covered by searching the /home only. This is why my more complex method goes thru the password file.

[Nancy Calderon]

Thanks a lot Mel, I didn't mean to bother you, of course your script is quite useful, I was just testing it before to answer.

[Nancy Calderon]

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