On Tue Sep 11 2007 at 10:37 PM -0700, Bill Brelsford wrote: > After a recent update to sid, incoming rlogin and rsh connections > ignore /etc/hosts.equiv (and ~/.rhosts) and ask for a password or > fail with "permission denied". The rsh-server (and -client) > packages were not updated, but libpam-modules, libpam-runtime and > libpam0g were upgraded to 0.99.7.1-4. I'm not sure one of them is > the culprit (and see no new bugs filed for them), but pam is > involved in the authentication process. > > Is this a known problem? Anyone else experiencing it?
On Thu Sep 13 2007 at 05:20 PM +0200, Lewis, James M. wrote: > I have the same problem and have not been able to pick > through it yet. Like you, I suspect a change in a pam > module. There are only a few to check but I have not > had time to do it yet. Look in /etc/pam.d/rsh... I did, but didn't go quite far enough. The problem seems to be /lib/security/pam_rhosts_auth.so -- replacing it with the old version fixes it. I'll file a bug against libpam-modules. Thanks! -- Bill Brelsford [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]