On Mon, 15 Sep 1997, Bengt-Ove Johansson wrote: > > I'm a student programmer at the Dept. of Mathematics and Computer Science, > > Odense University in Denmark. > > > > I've installed Debian 1.2 on one of our PC's in the Unix network. This > > works great (not surprisingly). > > > > Now I've installed Debian 1.3.1 on another PC, and I can't get this new > > machine to accept root rsh requests from our primary server (running > > SunOS), or any other machine, for that matter. Both Debian machines have > > the same .rhosts file in the root homedir, but the 1.3.1 host gives > > permission denied replies. > > Try adding "-h" after rshd in your /etc/inetd.conf. This flag allows > your in.rshd to use the root .rhosts file. Without it /root/.rhosts > will be silently ignored.
That did it! The option isn't mentioned in the man page. How was I supposed to have found this out myself? > I think I saw a mail on this list a while ago about that flag being > removed. It isn't used on the 1.2 host. The first thing I did was compare their inetd.conf :-) > > I'm lost, and if I don't solve the problem my system manager will not let > > me install Debian on new PCs in the department (Not Good!). > > That would be awful!! My thought exactly! > I hope things work out for you. Let me now how it turns out. They did. Regards, ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Jeppe Buk, student of computer science Phone: +45 6557 2347 IMADA, Odense University Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Campusvej 55 WWW: http://www.imada.ou.dk/~buk/ DK-5230 Odense M, Denmark SMS (subject only): [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
