Local User Hosts File

mor22 · n00b Joined: 22 Jun 2003 Posts: 52 Location: Cambridge, UK

I would like to have a hosts file similar to /etc/hosts that a local user without root priv's can write their own hosts to.

Does anyone know if this is possible?

Cheers

mor22 · n00b Joined: 22 Jun 2003 Posts: 52 Location: Cambridge, UK

The reason I want this is to allow tab completion when sshing to another machine without typing the host ip address.

zshell can do tab completion of host names, yet to get it working tho.

Just a thought though

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rogue · Posted: Thu Sep 11, 2003 1:12 am Post subject:

is this something that you want to be individual for all users, or something that you don't mind potential abuse for...

you could just write a script with the setuid bit set that just modifies the /etc/hosts file? i.e. something that you would call 'add-host blah ip'
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mor22 · n00b Joined: 22 Jun 2003 Posts: 52 Location: Cambridge, UK

I can't do that because I don't have root permisions on that box, but I guess I could have a script with just:

ssh 123.456.768.123

instead of typing ip address I type the hostname (which is the name of the script)

Lame workarround I think.