On Mon, Feb 14, 2000 at 10:16:07AM -0500, Clarence Donath wrote:
> I'm trying to set up the mechanism that will allow predefined users
> to rlogin to other Linux machines on my LAN without having to enter
> their password. This is to get rsh scripts to run automated.
>
> Creating a .rhosts file in my home directory on the remote machine
> does not work, like it does on an SGI LAN. I once had it working in
> Red Hat v5.2 by entering a line in /etc/hosts.allow, but I lost that
> installation and cannot get it working again after reading 'man
> hosts.allow' and trying several forms.
>
> What I'd like to do is allow any users on my LAN to rsh to all other
> machines. I've set up host aliases in linuxconf so I can rlogin to
> the other machines giving only the host alias names, and rlogin and
> rsh work just fine, without needing to enter the user name, but I'm
> always prompted for a password. I wish there was a configuration
> option in linuxconf to do this.
>
> Can anyone give me any suggestions please?
Try putting trusted hostname(s) in /etc/hosts.equiv.
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