Trying to use rlogin between various machine and mostly OK but one of them I can't get to rlogin to remote systems - it always requests password. Others can rlogin to this one and each other but not this one to any others. It's a new system and I have installed Sun recommended patches (Solaris 8 by the way). What have I missed?
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rlogin problem
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Checked & double checked these files. I have 4 servers I'll call them S H J & T for short. S H & J can rlogin, rsh etc between each other no problem. I have introduced J and S H & J can all rlogin to it but J can not rlogin to the others. So J is the common point but the settings of .rhosts and hosts.equiv are on the other 3 separate systems. I read somewhere that the hostname in these 2 files can not be a nickname which it isn't. Any other ideas?
rlogin to your host, execute the command "who", the name of your host is written in () copy this string to .rhosts
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-- Franz
Sorry I'm not a native spaeker, I'm from Munich, Germany - "Home of the Whopper", oh no, "Home of the Oktoberfest" ;-)
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Checked that - correct name used. With further testing I have found that I can rlogin with any user id except root. I have tried adding the local machine into /.rhosts on the remote and I have tried adding the local machine and root user id into the /etc/hosts.equiv file on the remote. Other systems can login as root onto the same remote.
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Problem solved! Thanks for your help. At some point in this process I added the local machine into the remote machines hosts file. The entry was correct but I removed it again on the grounds that it should be picked up from the DNS. This change apparently made the difference and root can now rlogin - if anyone can explain why such an entry would stop root but noth others from using rlogin I'd be interested.
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