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Joe Landman landman at scalableinformatics.com
Thu Jun 23 14:09:38 PDT 2005


You will still need a .rhosts file entry that reads

	localhost	root

or similar.


David Mathog wrote:
> Joe Landman wrote:
> 
> 
>>Ok, this should be it.  Change the
>>
>>	auth       required     pam_rhosts_auth.so
>>
>>to
>>
>>	auth       sufficient   pam_rhosts_auth.so
>>
>>in each.  You might need to restart xinetd as well.  Try that.
> 
> 
> No joy.  rsh works root -> root, or fred -> fred, but not
> root -> fred via rsh -l.
> 
> I'm really beginning to suspect that the implementation of -l
> in this version of in.rshd is broken.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> David Mathog
> mathog at caltech.edu
> Manager, Sequence Analysis Facility, Biology Division, Caltech



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