[531] in RedHat Linux List
Re: Strange problem with PAM and .rhosts
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joerg Mertin)
Wed Oct 23 04:59:52 1996
From: smurphy@stardust.bln.sub.org (Joerg Mertin)
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 23:00:19 +0200 (MET DST)
Reply-To: smurphy@antares.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE
In-Reply-To: <ra7mojxed9.fsf@epact.se> from Magnus Hammerin at "Oct 22, 96 04:28:18 pm"
Resent-From: redhat-list@redhat.com
According to Magnus Hammerin:
> I have a problem that is probably NFS related. If I try to logon from
> one machine to another I have to enter the password even though the
> machine is listed in the .rhosts file. If I cat my .rhosts file (which
> resides on a NFS mounted filesystem) on the host I try to logon to. I
> can logon without giving a password, as it should be.
>
> It seems like the pam module doesn't find anything in the file if it is
> not in the filebuffer, if the filesystem is NFS mounted. If I try the
> same with a local filesystem, it works fine.
>
> Has anybody else seen this?
>
> The machine I am trying to logon to is a redhat 4.0 machine. The NFS
> server has a 2.0.15 kernel and is running nfs server version 2.1.
Hmmm. Not directly. I only Noticed, that rsh works on redhat 3.0.3
Systems only if you have both Statements in your .rhosts file,
hostname and HostnameFQDN, e.g.
bla smurphy
bla.dummy.domain smurphy
If I only have one of both, I have to type in my Password...
cu
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