Re: root and .rhosts file
On Mon, 15 Sep 1997, Bengt-Ove Johansson wrote:
> > I'm a student programmer at the Dept. of Mathematics and Computer Science,
> > Odense University in Denmark.
> >
> > I've installed Debian 1.2 on one of our PC's in the Unix network. This
> > works great (not surprisingly).
> >
> > Now I've installed Debian 1.3.1 on another PC, and I can't get this new
> > machine to accept root rsh requests from our primary server (running
> > SunOS), or any other machine, for that matter. Both Debian machines have
> > the same .rhosts file in the root homedir, but the 1.3.1 host gives
> > permission denied replies.
>
> Try adding "-h" after rshd in your /etc/inetd.conf. This flag allows
> your in.rshd to use the root .rhosts file. Without it /root/.rhosts
> will be silently ignored.
That did it! The option isn't mentioned in the man page. How was I
supposed to have found this out myself?
> I think I saw a mail on this list a while ago about that flag being
> removed.
It isn't used on the 1.2 host. The first thing I did was compare their
inetd.conf :-)
> > I'm lost, and if I don't solve the problem my system manager will not let
> > me install Debian on new PCs in the department (Not Good!).
>
> That would be awful!!
My thought exactly!
> I hope things work out for you. Let me now how it turns out.
They did.
Regards,
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DK-5230 Odense M, Denmark SMS (subject only): 20422557@sms.tdm.dk
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