Chris Patti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Hi folks;
> 
> Whenever I rlogin to another host as root, whether I have
> .rhosts access or not, it *ALWAYS* ignores the first password I type!
> 
> Even if it's verifiably correct, it gets ignored.
> 
> This is frustrating since it rules out utilities like PASMAS and its
> ilk which make life MUCH easier for doing automated maintenance across 
> a number of machines.
> 
> Has anyone else had this problem, and is there a config I can twiddle
> somewhere? (PAM maybe?)
> 

I used to have a problem like this and I think the fix was to add tty
to /etc/securetty! PAM was checking tty not the tty* it was assigned.
I don't seem to need it now so maybe it was fixed in RH5.0?

Simon
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