In reply to Stephen Shirley's flatulent wordings,
> I've no problem with using a .shosts, but what exactly do I put in it? I
> couldn't find a proper descritpion anywhere.
It's similar to a .rhosts file. The format for the file is
hostname username
one line per trusted host/user combination so if I wanted to login as user
plop from host foo without having to type a password I have
foo plop
in my $HOME/.rhosts directory
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