Hi, I sent a message about this when I had the problem at my last job. I left the job before ever resolving this. I'm at a new job now and I'm trying to integrate linux somehow into our environment. I plan on using linux for some minor development at first, just to get some linux machines in there. However, I still can't get the r* commands to work. I do this every day on Solaris, SunOS, and formerly HP-UX. Can someone tell my why this doesn't work? I can't even get two linux boxes to talk to each other much less a Sun box.
I opened up .rhosts for root, hosts.equiv for everyone else, and even .rhosts for myself, but to no avail. I have no hosts.allow or hosts.deny file, nor am I using tcpd at all. Host names resolve via DNS or /etc/hosts with no problem. I tried having the hostname returned by uname -n be fully qualified just in case the linux r* commands are picky about that, but they shouldn't be with a + in these files! Nothing works, and its pretty annoying. It really renders the project useless if I can't get root access without needing passwords since I need to do stuff in scripts. I need rsh as well as rdist capabilities. Ssh is not an option at the moment, and really isn't the issue anyway. Shouldn't this just work?? What can I do to provide useful debuggin information? auth.log and daemon.log give standard permission denied crap. I modified inetd.conf to have: login stream tcp nowait root /usr/bin/strace \ /usr/bin/strace -fv -o/tmp/OUT /usr/sbin/in.rlogind (the line continuation is just for this mail, its not in the file). I modified rshd similarly. I have the strace files, but they didn't shed any light on it from my house. I'd be glad to send them to someone who would be able to make better use of them. I'm open to any other suggestions as well. By the by, all other network related communications work OK, including YP client services, NFS, telnet, ftp, http, imap, ldap, etc. Thanks in advance for any help. Cheers, -- "Until we extend the circle of our compassion to all living things, we will not ourselves find peace" -Albert Schweitzer Richard G. Roberto -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .