I've never used rsh because of the security concerns. Unfortunately, PVM3 (parallel virtual machine) uses rsh to establish the pvmd across nodes in a cluster. When I try to add nodes I get this: Oct 9 20:34:50 node2 pam_rhosts_auth[1158]: denied to [EMAIL PROTECTED] as clusteradmin: .rhosts writable by group Oct 9 20:34:50 node2 in.rshd[1158]: rsh denied to [EMAIL PROTECTED] as clusteradmin: Permission denied. Oct 9 20:34:50 node2 inetd[486]: pid 1158: exit status 1 I have .rhosts in /home/clusteradmin as: master clusteradmin Why the griping about .rhosts being writable? Also, I can rsh successfully from "master" as long as I provide a password. I wonder if this is the hangup. Is there a way of defeating the password requirement? -- Eric K. Engelhard
