Herbert Graf wrote:
> I've tried numerous google searches but since most people want to 
> INCREASE the security of their boxes I'm swimming against the 
> current! :)

 From my hosts.equiv man page (yours may be different):

Modern systems use the Pluggable Authentication Modules library  (PAM).
With PAM a standalone plus sign is only considered a wildcard character
which means "any host" when the word promiscuous is added to  the auth
component line  in  your  PAM  file  for  the particular service
(e.g. rlogin).

This is probably a good place to start:	
	http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/pam/Linux-PAM-html/pam.html#toc6

Section 6.21 covers the behavior of the default rutils module.  A quick 
glance through that section leads me to believe that you can get the 
wildcard hosts working with the stock setup, but you'll probably have to 
add a few custom lines to your pam.conf to handle the "any user" aspect.

If it turns out to be the casse that the rutils module won't work for 
you, I'd start by investigating the "anonymous access," list-file," 
promiscuous" and/or (depending on your needs) the "create home 
directories on first login" modules.

HTH,
Tad Anhalt
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