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Re: rsh Permissions in Colgate, and NFS question

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Hester)
Sun Nov 17 20:37:41 1996

From: "Eric Hester" <erich@carol.net>
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Date: Sun, 17 Nov 1996 20:28:23 -0500
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I am having the exact same problem with rdist. I having been trying to work
through it, could it possibly be pam related? the pam_rhost_auth.so or
something? Im out of ideas myself.

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> From: Mike Blatchley <mblatch@orci.com>
> To: redhat-list@redhat.com
> Cc: mblatch@orci.com
> Subject: rsh Permissions in Colgate, and NFS question
> Date: Sunday, November 17, 1996 5:41 PM
> 
> I'm sure this has been addressed before, but after wading through the 
> archives, I still didn't have anything that worked.
> 
> I'm trying to do "rsh" operations across our network (mainly comprised of

> Suns running SunOS 4.x) to my RedHat 4.0 machine.  I can do rsh 
> operations to the Sun's, but not from the Sun's into my machine.  
> 
> Also, I just hacked my way through setting up my machine as an NFS 
> server.  If anyone has any comments on anything _bad_ I might have done 
> (in hosts.allow), I'd listen.
> 
> My machine configuration: (hostname: borabora, Sun name: dollar):
> 
> borabora:/etc/hosts.allow        {redundant things in here???}
> ----------------------------
> ALL: LOCAL
> ALL: mydomain.com
> portmap: x.y.z.0/255.255.255.0   {x.y.z.0 is our appropriate network
address}
> 
> 
> borabora:/etc/exports
> -----------------------------
> /home/mikeb	*.mydomain.com(ro,link_relative)
> 
> borabora:/.rhosts      {is this used anymore for rsh operations?}
> --------------------------------
> dollar
> dollar.mydomain.com
> x.y.z.100               {dollar's IP address}
> 
> Now, when I try:
> 
>   dollar% rsh borabora ls
>   Permission denied.
> 
> I get this in borabora:/var/log/secure:
>   borabora in.rlogind[11061]: warning: /etc/hosts.allow, line 1: can't
>         verify hostname: gethostbyname(dollar.mydomain.com) failed
> 
> Right now, we are only running NIS/YP (no DNS), but I have dollar's IP in

> my /etc/hosts file, and it is also available through YP.  
> 
> What else needs to be configured to make remote operations work?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Mike Blatchley
> mblatch@orci.com
> 
> 
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