Re: root and .rhosts file
On Wed, Sep 10, 1997 at 03:53:42PM +0200, Jeppe Buk wrote:
> Hi
>
> 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.
I think I saw a mail on this list a while ago about that flag being
removed.
BTW, rlogin works the same.
> BTW: I'm not using shadow passwords on any of the systems.
>
> 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!!
I hope things work out for you. Let me now how it turns out.
Cheers,
Bengt-Ove!
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