problem with rlogin

[andrea_53]

Hi people,
I have a problem.
rlogin ask me the password to connect to the server!!!
I checked everything in the .rhosts, /etc/hosts, resolv.conf, nsswitch.conf and everything is fine.
/etc/host.equiv doesn't exist.
DNS is working fine!!
Please help me!!!
Thank you

[Domenico_5]

hi andrea

have you write correctly .rhost?

hostname user

[Domenico_5]

sorry

I have cliked so quikly.

check if you dns work correctly, connect to the server with telnet, use who -R for read you user so you can check if .rhost have the correct user

by

[harry d brown jr]

ROOT user or some other user? IF it is "root", then take a look at /etc/securetty


live free or die
harry

[Pete Randall]

Hi Andrea,

Typically, when I run into this, it's because the .rhosts on one server does not contain an entry for the other server. In other words, the .rhosts file on HOSTA must contain an entry for HOSTB and vice-versa. The .rhosts file must be in the proper location as well. If /etc/passwd on HOSTA says the home directory is /root and /etc/passwd on HOSTB says the home directory is /, you can have problems.

I use hosts.equiv for regular users and .rhosts for root and keep these two files and the passwd file the same on all machines - that way, there's no problems.

Pete

[Deepak Extross]

Hi,

From the man page of rlogin:
"For security purposes, the /etc/hosts.equiv and .rhosts files should exist, even if they are empty."

-hth.

[Bonny Jose_1]

Hi,
The hostname in .rhosts entry should be in such a way that how the second one knows Ist.

For this you do a ping from the server where you want to put .rhosts and see the reply. This reply will show you how the 1st is known to 2nd. Enter this name in .rhosts and this solve your problem.
Or you can put all the probable names like
IP
hostname
hostname.domainname

Cheers
Bonny Jose

[Mark Ellzey]

Hi,

You may also want to check the file /var/adm/inetd.sec. This can also limit which hosts are allowd to log into your server.

Regards,
Mark

[MANOJ SRIVASTAVA]

Hi Andrea


here is what you can try

server A IP ADD 10.2.10.30
server B IP ADD 10.2.10.32

in the /etc/hosts there should be an entry in both the servers .

then in $home/.rhosts of the user you shoould have

serverA username
serverB username

in both the servers .

if this doenst work then the server name is not being resolved properly , you migh like to change the .rhosts to

10.2.10.30 username
10.2.10.32 username

Also you can try to do rlogin locally to check whter there is a problem like taht or not.



Manoj Srivastava

[Charles Akonnor]

Normally name resolution in a big problem in this issue.
-Make sure the hostnames of both servers resolves to the right IP Addresses and that reverse lookup also works fine.
-Make sure the .rhosts entries are correct
-Before you type rlogin make sure the effective user id is the id of the user set to have rlogin access( type #id , to check this).
-If the above does not solve your problem then make sure the user id of the rlogin user is the same on both servers.

[Robin Wakefield]

Hi Andrea,

Make sure the .rhosts (or whatever) entry is the *primary* FQDN entry as returned by nslookup, not an alias.

Rgds, Robin

[Uday_S_Ankolekar]

Well,

Couple of things..

1.Try with ipaddress instead of hostname in .rhosts file.

2. check /var/adm/inetd.sec file if you have restrictions for telnet shell exec etc..

3. If you are tring rlogin for a user try with for different user or for the root and see if it works.

-Goodluck

-USA..

[Sanjay_6]

Hi Andrea,

I had this problem when i was using servers in different domain and doing an rlogin.

on server1
# nslookup
> server2

on server2
# nslookup
> server1

Say server1 is server1.domain1.com
server2 is server2.domain2.com

on server1 the .rhosts file should be

server2.domain2.com root any_other_user

on server2 the .rhosts file should be

server1.domain1.com root any_other_user

I think you can achieve this by adding domain1.com in the serach list in /etc/resolv.conf on server2 and vice versa too. I cannot try this before i post this answer because my test workstation which is another domain is down at the moment, clash of ip's that i'm trying to resolve.

Hope this helps.

Regds