Whoa! Flashback! That's it, hosts.equiv!
Thank you sir, this time I won't forget. ;-)
Regards,
Clarence Donath
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> Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2000 11:24:24 -0500
> From: Hal Burgiss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: rhosts bollocks
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> On Mon, Feb 14, 2000 at 10:16:07AM -0500, Clarence Donath wrote:
> > I'm trying to set up the mechanism that will allow predefined users
> > to rlogin to other Linux machines on my LAN without having to enter
> > their password. This is to get rsh scripts to run automated.
> >
> > Creating a .rhosts file in my home directory on the remote machine
> > does not work, like it does on an SGI LAN. I once had it working in
> > Red Hat v5.2 by entering a line in /etc/hosts.allow, but I lost that
> > installation and cannot get it working again after reading 'man
> > hosts.allow' and trying several forms.
> >
> > What I'd like to do is allow any users on my LAN to rsh to all other
> > machines. I've set up host aliases in linuxconf so I can rlogin to
> > the other machines giving only the host alias names, and rlogin and
> > rsh work just fine, without needing to enter the user name, but I'm
> > always prompted for a password. I wish there was a configuration
> > option in linuxconf to do this.
> >
> > Can anyone give me any suggestions please?
>
> Try putting trusted hostname(s) in /etc/hosts.equiv.
>
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> Hal B
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