There must be no user .rhosts files.

From Solaris 11 SPARC Security Technical Implementation Guide

Associated with: CCI-000366

SV-60991r1_rule There must be no user .rhosts files.

Vulnerability discussion

Even though the .rhosts files are ineffective if support is disabled in /etc/pam.conf, they may have been brought over from other systems and could contain information useful to an attacker for those other systems.

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The root role is required. Remove any .rhosts files found. # rm [file name]

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