Gunnar Strand wrote: > > Hi, > However, I can't get rlogin/rsh/rcp working "passwordlessly". > I have added +<host> in /etc/hosts.equiv on both boxes and gone > through /etc/login.defs with no success. I even get a password
login.defs is for shadow passwords. > prompt when doing 'rlogin localhost'! I'm sure there is a config > somewhere I've missed. How do you declare a host's chummy friends > besides hosts.equiv? > Each user sets up who they trust with their account by defining a .rhosts file is their home directory. It should look like trusted.host.DNS user where the DNS is a fully qualified domain name and user is the name of the user on the trusted machine. You will then recieve no prompt for a password. > Secondly, what is the best way to propagate the passwd and group > files? I consider using NIS but haven't put my teeth in it yet. > I though perhaps an 'rcp' would do it, but since I can't rcp due > to the password prompt, well, you get the picture. > NIS is surely one way. I have found it to flakey at best, but it does work (did that just make sense :-/ ). rcp will also work, but remeber to set up root to have rlogin rights. I do not remember how to do that. Maybe someone else can follow up on this. Hoe this helps. -- Paul Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED]
