According to Oliver Elphick <olly@lfix.co.uk>: > Andy Spiegl wrote: > >I found the man page about hosts.equiv: > > > > The hosts.equiv file allows or denies hosts and users to > > use the r-commands (e.g. rlogin, rsh or rcp) without sup=AD > > plying a password. > > > >But I can't seem to set it up correctly. I tried > >+mpci > > > >on one machine and > >+mpcii > > > >on the other (yes, those two are the host names), and I even > >tried a single '+', but I still get the password prompt. > >I just don't see what's wrong? Help, please! > > 1. It should be enough just to list the machine names; the `+' is > unnecessary. I use the full machine and domain name, but I'm not > sure if this is actually necessary. > > 2. The man page for rlogind says that it is possible to turn off the > use of /etc/hosts.equiv or ~/.rhosts with the option `-L'. > > 3. If you are logged in as root, you can't use /etc/hosts.equiv. You > can't use ~/.rhosts either unless rlogind is also invoked with `-h'. > (That is how I interpret the man page for rlogind.) > > You don't want to use `-h' if your network has any exposure to the = >outside world!
That's how I understand the man page, too. I tried your suggestion of leaving out the '+', but the behavior didn't change. Then I read (I think in hosts.equiv man page) that everything may be different, when PAM is installed. I checked and yes, I have PAM, because SAMBA needs that. I tried to understand how to configure PAM so it would let me log in w/o password, but there is not a whole lot of docu- mentation and that didn't help me. :-( Does anyone else know enough about PAM to help me there? Or maybe I am wrong and it's not a PAM question after all? Thanks again, Andy. ___________________________________________________________________ Andy Spiegl, University of Technology, Muenchen, Germany E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] OR: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://www.appl-math.tu-muenchen.de/~spiegl PGP fingerprint: B8 48 24 7B DB 96 6F 1C D9 6D 8E 6C DB C2 E7 E9 o _ _ _ --------- __o __o /\_ _ \\o (_)\__/o (_) ------- _`\<,_ _`\<,_ _>(_) (_)/<_ \_| \ _|/' \/ ------ (_)/ (_) (_)/ (_) (_) (_) (_) (_)' _\o_ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
