Dear Managers.
I have a problem regarding rlogin and the .rhosts file.
I want to be able to 'rlogin machine2' from machine1. I want to create a
.rhosts file so that I don't need to provide my password on machine2.
My .rhosts file on both computers looks like this (note that the
computers are on the same domain):
machine1.my.domain username
mackine2.my.domain username
The .rhosts files are both chmod 0600.
When I now try to 'rlogin machine2' I still need to provide a password.
Now, if I change my .rhosts file to:
machine1 username
machine2 username
then everything work as it's supposed to. BUT what about the security issue?
Will computers at other domains with hostname machine1 be able to rlogin
to machine2?
Why doesn't my first .rhosts file work?
machine1 is a AlphaStation 250 running DU4.0. I will soon upgrade to 4.0B.
Per-Ivar
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Per-Ivar Emanuelsen | e-mail: Per-Ivar.Emanuelsen_at_phys.uit.no
The Auroral Observatory | phone: +47 77 64 51 37
University of Tromso |
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Received on Tue May 27 1997 - 11:58:30 NZST