From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Date: Mon, 15 Dec 1997 12:46:11 +0100
From: Boyd Roberts boyd@france3.fr
Subject: [9fans] need help with u9fs
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    From: forsyth@caldo.demon.co.uk

    it will nearly always be something to do with hosts.equiv, as philw said.
    (i thought there was a peculiar interpretation of `host user' in /etc/hosts.equiv

no, it's just a list of hostnames.  you can specify both in
$home/^{.rhosts,.netrc}, but that's another story.