Can you send the .rhosts in both hosts to the list? As I remember it, the rshd is very picky about the way you specify the hpost name in .rhosts. I think is has to be the same string the gethostbyaddr() (the resolver) returns.
I hope this helps. E.- > > Hello, > > does someone know any peculiarities with rsh and .rhosts? I would > like to transfer per cron job certain files from hotsA to hostB with > rsh and pipes. The rsh-pipe-mechanism works fine for certain hosts, > and does not for others for permission denied problems. They all are > running the net*-packages from the stable tree, and the .rhosts files > are triple checked as to be ok. > > e.g., why this?! > > --> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# rsh -l normaluser hostB.full.domain.name date > --> Permission denied. > > --> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# rsh -l normaluser hostA.full.domain.name date > --> Wed Apr 30 09:56:53 MET DST 1997 -- Eloy A. Paris Information Technology Department Rockwell Automation de Venezuela Telephone: +58-2-9432311 Fax: +58-2-9430323 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .