On Sat Dec 30 17:37:59 2000 John R. Jackson wrote...
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>>amandad: accept error: amanda not allowed access: .amandahosts auth failed
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>>Yet I can rlogin from the clinet to the host, and vice versa,
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>Which is irrelevant since Amanda uses a different security model.
True, but still It checks things ike name resolution.
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>>Here's .amadahosts from the server (kodiak)
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>>+stan
>>+root
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>FYI, Amanda does not support NIS, so those + entries are useless.
OK, obviously this was originally copied from an .rhosts file. BTW why does
Amanda not support NIS?
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>>and here it is from the client (wateral)
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>>kodiak
>>phse6
>>kodiak.fas.com
>>phse6.westvaco.com
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>>What stupid newbie thing have I forgotten here?
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>I'm not sure (looks more or less OK to me). Please try the following
>patch which adds a lot better diagnostics and also re-enables the security
>test program (now called "bsdsecurity") as a last resort. You only need
>to build/install this on the client -- the server side is not affected.
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>The code includes one real fix. It was not handing trailing white space
>properly when reading .amandahosts, so if you have any of that in the
>file, it might be the problem.
Well, this fixed it, and no, there was no trailing whitespace in .amandahosts
In any case, it works now.
Thanks for the help.
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a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system
originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit
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