What version is your opensolaris? The trick is that because opensolaris is somewhat different from solaris. the default home of root in opensolaris is"/root", not "/".
so the file .rhosts should be put in /root. By the way, you do not need the /etc/hosts.equiv in solaris 10 and opensolaris 11. and the .rhosts format can be as simple as only a "+" : #echo "+">/root/.rhosts make sure the following services are enabled: svc:/network/login:rlogin svc:/network/shell:default IF not, enable them: svcadm enable svc:/network/login:rlogin svcadm enable svc:/network/shell:default -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
