On 12-Jun-02 Keith Morse wrote: > On Wed, 12 Jun 2002, Danny Sternkopf wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> I am running RedHat Linux 7.2 on my boxes and I have some troubles with the >> user's >> .rhosts file. I want to allow the login procedure via rsh and rlogin >> directly without password >> for serveral users and for serveral computers. >> >> So I specified in my .rhosts file the metacharacter '+', but it didn't work. >> It seems that the >> character is ignored. >> > > >>From what little I remember of rsh, the metacharacter '+' is not legal in > .rhosts. Only valid with respect to 'xhost'.
actually, it IS a legal character, but you need to have the net groups setup properly. From what I can tell, Linux does this differently from other Unixes. It's covered in O'reilly's Managing NFS and NIS, but I haven't tried it yet. -Greg > > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list ---------------------------------- E-Mail: Gregory Hosler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 13-Jun-02 Time: 10:14:48 If each of us have one object, and we exchange them, then each of us still has one object. If each of us have one idea, and we exchange them, then each of us now has two ideas. ---------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
