Richard G. Roberto wrote: > I opened up .rhosts for root, hosts.equiv for everyone else, > and even .rhosts for myself, but to no avail. I have no > hosts.allow or hosts.deny file, nor am I using tcpd at all. > Host names resolve via DNS or /etc/hosts with no problem. I > tried having the hostname returned by uname -n be fully > qualified just in case the linux r* commands are picky about > that, but they shouldn't be with a + in these files! > Nothing works, and its pretty annoying. It really renders > the project useless if I can't get root access without > needing passwords since I need to do stuff in scripts. I > need rsh as well as rdist capabilities. Ssh is not an > option at the moment, and really isn't the issue anyway.
Part of the security behind the .rhosts files are that they will not work unless they are mode 644. This way only the owner can add to them. Make sure the ownership is correct too. Tim -- (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] / (home) [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.buoy.com/~tps "You mind if I smoke?" Joan D'Arc ** Disclaimer: My views/comments/beliefs, as strange as they are, are my own.** -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
