On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 03:06:52PM +1000, Matt Hyne wrote:
> I'm trying to work out what permissions I have to change on two machines to allow me
>to 'rcp' as root from one machine to another.
>
> I have added both machines to /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.equiv but I still get
>permission denied messages -
>
> [root@panda /etc]# rcp /etc/smb.conf panda-new:/etc/
> Permission denied.
>
> Anyone know what else I need to change to get this to work ?
The man page for hosts.equiv(5) on my system says:
...
The username entry grants a specific user access to all
user accounts (except root) without supplying a password.
...
Is there any reason why you can't use scp?
-Andrew.
--
SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/
More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
