Last week I was trying to troubleshoot and fix a problem where my LM8f1 machine
would not allow my LM72 client to rsh/ssh to the machine as ROOT. Other users
could gain access with no problem. My thanks to all why offered suggestions.
However, the only way I've found to enable rsh for root was to delete
/etc/securetty. Note I had tried adding rsh, rlogin, and rexec to the end of
/etc/securetty (one per line), but this did not help. After finding that
deleting /etc/securetty fixed the problem, I tried creating a new securetty file
in /etc containing the following entries:

tty1
tty2
tty3
tty4
tty5
tty6
rsh
rlogin
rexec

This did not work either. Again, root was denied permission to rsh to the
machine. Note that rlogin has always worked for root regardless of the status of
this file. All other users - so long as they have a .rhosts file - can access
the 80f1 machine with rsh.

John LeMay Jr.
Senior Enterprise Consultant
NJMC, LLC.


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