The original posting is at the end of this message.
Thanks to Tim Hespe and Andrew L Weston for replying to my message.
As expected the fix was a simple one.
The file .rhosts in the root directory should have a mod of 600 mine was
world readable and writeable.
Thanks again.
Glenn.
>I am having trouble remote copying files from other machines to or from our
>Alpha 1000 DU3.2G as root.
>>From the Alpha I can push files to other machines as the root user, and I
>can also pull files from other machines as the root user. However when I am
>on another machine as root, I cannot push files to or pull files from the
>Alpha. If I am logged in as a normal user I can push files to or pull files
>from the Alpha no worries. I know this must be a relatively simple problem
>to solve, but it has me stumped.
>The remote machine has the Alpha in its /etc/hosts.equiv file and the Alpha
>has the remote machines name in its /etc/hosts.equiv file. The root
>directory on the remote machine has the Alhpa name in the .rhosts file, and
>the Alpha has the remote machines name in its .rhosts file.
>What am I missing?
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