As root, can't rlogin from particular server without password

[Michael Schulte zur Sur]

Hi,

when I rlogin to a machine and it requires me to enter the password even though it shouldn't, I do it and use w to look, what the machine thinks, I am coming from. This I put in .rhosts and /etc/hosts.

greetings,

Michael

[Jay Core]

Thanks to all who replied - still no solution - I'm going to break down and call the Response Center.

Joe

[Sridhar Bhaskarla · Accepted solution]

Hi Joe,

There are quite a few messages in this thread. This suggestion probably might have been given.

Try enabling logging with inetd and observe as what this server is getting in as.

inetd -l (on host9)

tail -f /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log (on host9)

from host7, now do a 'rlogin host9' and now see what system name is appearing in the syslog and make sure that system name is specified in your .rhosts.

-Sri

[Kenneth Platz]

When you login to your system from host7 and host8, run the command "who -u am i", and use that hostname in your .rhosts.

It may be that you are on a multihomed system, and coming in over an IP address you're not necessarily expecting.

[Jay Core]

Kenneth - no luck - only coming up as root, which I already knew about - thanks, though.

Sridhar - congrats! This tracking option pointed me to the problem! An old/invalid IP showed up in the syslog after I enabled logging - now I can troubleshoot it - thanks again.

Joe