Solved. I had created a /.rhosts file instead of a /root/.rhosts file.
Doh! Thanks, all....
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Mark Fearer
On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, Kevin D. Clark wrote:
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> > Hello, all. I checked the mail archives for 'root access', 'rsh root',
> > and 'root login', but failed to find what I was looking for.
> > For the purpose of nightly backups, I want to allow a Solaris 2.6 box to
> > be able to rsh into a PC that is running Red Hat as root without being
> > prompted for a password.
> > I have commented out all of the lines in /etc/pam.d/rsh and I have
> > commented out the /lib/security/pam_securetty.so line of /etc/pam.d/login.
> > This allows the root account to telnet, rlogin, and rsh in, but *with* a
> > password prompt. Again, I want the Solaris box that is running the backup
> > scripts to be able to rsh right in as root.
>
> (I didn't even have to muck around with PAM in order to get the scheme
> below working)
>
> Edit ~root/.rhosts and add a line like this:
>
> yourSolaris2.6Hostname yourAccountOnThatSolarisBox
>
> and then make sure that this .rhosts file has the appropiate
> permissions (chmod 600 ~root/.rhosts).
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>
> I would highly recommend doing this with ssh though. IP addresses can
> be spoofed....
>
> --kevin (hey, long time no see...)
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