On Tue, 8 Oct 2002 at 11:39am (-0400), Michael George wrote: > I'm trying to activate rsh for our internal network, but I'm having trouble > with the .rhosts file. > > I have just "+" in my home directory .rhosts file (for now) and the file is > owned and grouped to me with permissions 400. Yet when I try to rlogin to the > machine from another machine (same username on both), I am still prompted for > a password. > > How can I eliminate that? I thought that the .rhosts file was all that had to > be present... > > Thanks! >
Unless you give the "promiscuous" option to /lib/security/pam_rhosts_auth.so in rlogin's and rsh's respective pam config files wildwards in the ~/.rhosts file will be ignored. See the README.pam_rhosts in pam's doc directory. M. -- WebCentral Pty Ltd Australia's #1 Internet Web Hosting Company Level 5, 100 Wickham St. Network Operations - Systems Engineer PO Box 930, Fortitude Valley. phone: +61 7 3249 2552 Queensland, Australia 4006. pgp key id: 0x900E515F -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
