Re: Problem with rsh

2002-10-25 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Pierre A. Humblet wrote: On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 03:23:11PM -0700, Andrew DeFaria wrote: David Rothenberger wrote: Check your /etc/passwd file and make sure there is no entry in the password field (the second field). You want something like this: someuser::11150:... and not something like t

Re: Problem with rsh

2002-10-25 Thread David Rothenberger
Pierre is right. Without anything in the password field, I can rsh to my machine as anyone without providing a password, without setting up .rhosts files and without defining hosts.equiv. With a value in the password field, I can still rsh, but only if I have a .rhosts file set up and with permis

Re: Problem with rsh

2002-10-25 Thread Bruce Dobrin
w to get the "+" entry to work and would welcome any solution to that problem. Documentation on all this seems rather limited and often apocryphal as specific to cygwin. Bruce D - Original Message - From: "Andrew DeFaria" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECT

Re: Problem with rsh

2002-10-25 Thread Pierre A. Humblet
On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 03:23:11PM -0700, Andrew DeFaria wrote: > David Rothenberger wrote: > > >Check your /etc/passwd file and make sure there is no entry in the > >password field (the second field). You want something like this: > > > >someuser::11150:... > > > >and not something like thi

Re: Problem with rsh

2002-10-25 Thread Andrew DeFaria
David Rothenberger wrote: Check your /etc/passwd file and make sure there is no entry in the password field (the second field). You want something like this: someuser::11150:... and not something like this: someuser:unused_by_nt/2000/xp:11150:... An easy way to check if this is the culprit i

Re: Problem with rsh

2002-10-25 Thread David Rothenberger
Check your /etc/passwd file and make sure there is no entry in the password field (the second field). You want something like this: someuser::11150:... and not something like this: someuser:unused_by_nt/2000/xp:11150:... An easy way to check if this is the culprit is to try doing an rlogin. F

Re: Problem with rsh

2002-10-25 Thread Pierre A. Humblet
On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 01:45:02PM -0700, Andrew DeFaria wrote: > I've run into a major problem using rsh. Note that I've been using rsh > successfully for a while and many people here depend on being able to > rsh into the server. However now I get: > > $ rsh server id > server.mydomain.com: Pe