-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi,
"Ralf G. R. Bergs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I need to rsh into a different account on another local host, but keep > my original environment. The user should NOT be prompted for a > password (this is easy, using .rhost). > > The problem I'm facing is that on the remote machine I don't have my > original environment but that of the remote user. I'm making a wild assumption that primarily the part of your environment you're interested in is $DISPLAY. Use ssh. It'll do x forwarding. In addition to that, you can use RSA authentication instead of .rhosts to achieve passwordless authentication. Using .rhosts is inherently insecure[1]. [1] Take for example my recent escapade[2]. Somebody else left themselves logged into one computer. I wanted their login on another computer. They have an NFS-mounted home directory. So what do I do? Create the appropriate .rhosts entry and I've got access to another box. :) [2] This was utterly legitimate. It was a friend's computer and I was demonstrating why the r(sh|login|...) tools were bad. - -- Graeme. [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Life's not fair," I reply. "But the root password helps." - BOFH -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt 3.5.5 and Gnu Privacy Guard <http://www.gnupg.org/> iD8DBQE5Gc4cPjGH3lNt65URAopuAKDP8dsqTZKgLrwlKMnibt/cFyG32wCgiXu6 hTFwN0719ZNuLLgDI1kz+oY= =4FGq -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
