Dear Managers,
Responses were received from:
"Alan Pittman" <PITTMAN_at_oeteg.com>
"Randy Rodgers" <randy.rodgers_at_ci.ft-wayne.in.us>
Alan suggested checking the /.rhosts file existed with proper
permissions. A good thing to check, but in my case it was OK.
Randy said he had a similar problem and had to get a patch
from Compaq. I called and the support person is bumping my case to
Engineering for a patch. As a workaround they suggested setting
turning off the expiration and lifetime for the root password. I can
live with that as I change all root passwords on my LAN in one big
batch (there are only 5 machines), so having one machine not check
whether the password is old isn't a big deal. (To do it set the u_exp
and u_life fields in the prpasswd entry to 0: u_exp#0:u_life#0 )
After I did that I discovered a second problem. Apparently I
had enabled TCP wrappers on rsh on the client in question. This
doesn't work. After fixing that problem, rsh now works properly. I
did check if TCP wrappers was the whole problem and I could reset the
expiration and lifetime for the root password. Unfortunately that's
not the case; it's two independent problems and both have to be fixed.
Larry
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Larry Griffith Dept. of Computer & Info Science
larry_at_cs.wsc.ma.edu Westfield State College
(413) 572-5294 Westfield, MA 01086 USA
PGP public key available at:
http://cs.wsc.ma.edu/dcis/griffith.html
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Received on Fri Jan 07 2000 - 16:00:59 NZDT