I've done this years ago but not since. On my private LAN at home behind a
firewall I want to allow some processes to logon without
authentication. One of the machines is running RH 6.0 (the other RH 6.2)
and for now will not run OpenSSH so I'll start with rsh.
I created this simple file .rhosts file in my home directory but I still
need to enter a password when I connect from droopy (local private IP
192.168.0.7) using rsh:
$ cd
$ cat .rhosts
192.168.0.7 amead
droopy amead
droopy.home.com amead
I suspect that (1) I'm doing something dumb or (2) Red Hat ships some
security measure with which I'm unfamiliar. I cannot find any
documentation on .rhosts authentication in the 6.0 or 6.2 man pages so I'm
going off the discussion in the TCP/IP "crab" book.
-Alan
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