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Re: rlogin yes, telnet no ?!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Radovan Chytracek)
Wed Jan 31 16:35:27 1996
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 1996 10:01:24 +0100 (MET)
From: Radovan Chytracek <chytrace@dice2.desy.de>
To: Jan Vicherek <jvichere@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca>
cc: Linux NET mailing list <linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu>, masq@indyramp.com
In-Reply-To: <Pine.ULT.3.91.960129153937.16845A-100000@noether.math.uwaterloo.ca>
On Tue, 30 Jan 1996, Jan Vicherek wrote:
> as any user I can do both telnet and rlogin to any machine on the local net
> (I have a local ethernet and PPP to the Net using IP_MASQUERADE).
>
> once I add the IP of the Net host (calum) into /etc/hosts, I can telnet
> to it as any kind of user, but I still can't rlogin to it, not even as root.
Try to setup properly the file /etc/hosts.equiv on calum or .rhosts for
all the users to allow rlogin to calum from trusted machines. Be careful
when doing that and put just trusted machines to the file.
More info you can find in manual pages for hosts.equiv and rlogin.
Good Luck !
Radovan
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