topic Re: rlogin in Operating System - HP-UX

rlogin

John Goetz — Wed, 19 Oct 2005 08:31:45 GMT

Trying to rlogin or remsh to another server and its asking for password. The .rhosts file is setup correctly. I can rlogin ok out of the server that I am trying to rlogin into. Not sure what else to look at.

Re: rlogin

Dave Hutton — Wed, 19 Oct 2005 08:35:13 GMT

in your .rhosts do have just the short named used? or long name?

Quite a few times I see when I go from one server to another and have issues with this its because when I do a who -u it shows
host.domain.com where I just have short name in the .rhosts file.

Re: rlogin

Mel Burslan — Wed, 19 Oct 2005 08:41:34 GMT

also make sure your .rhosts has permissions of 400

Re: rlogin

Luk Vandenbussche — Wed, 19 Oct 2005 08:44:21 GMT

Hi,

Try with rlogin ip-adress instead of the name. Just to check that your name resolution works fine

Re: rlogin

AwadheshPandey — Wed, 19 Oct 2005 08:45:59 GMT

useful link for you, edit ur /etc/host.equiv file.

http://www.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de/doc/man/hpux/rlogin.1.html

Awadhesh

Re: rlogin

john kingsley — Wed, 19 Oct 2005 08:51:25 GMT

If you have more than one network adapter in the box, and the other adapter(s) have differnent hostnames associated with them, make sure the other hostnames are listed in the rhost file.

Re: rlogin

Rick Garland — Wed, 19 Oct 2005 08:52:49 GMT

How is the system name being reported, long name or short name?

You may want to include both in the .rhosts

Re: rlogin

Doug O'Leary — Wed, 19 Oct 2005 09:43:06 GMT

Hey;

From a system that is supposed to be allowed rlogin acccess, telnet to the trusting system, then execute "who -R". Ensure the hostname reported via that command is listed in the ~/.rhosts file.

Now to get on my soap box: You really shouldn't use rlogin/remsh except in very short case by case basis. If you need to have passwordless login, switch to ssh with public key authentication. It's a bit of a learning curve, but two factor authentication will always trump the rather significant security hole that trusted hosts entails.

HTH;

Doug