Question about activity monitoring

[Daniel Schneider]

Hi all,
I have a problem with an application, which runs on unix-server. The front-end is used by a windows client, who connects with rexec. Now there is something wrong with login: A user who is known in the password list, and who is able to login in unix, cannot login with the client via rexec. I thin in the login procedure of the clientsoftware it looks in a file with further login information specific from the server application.
How can I monitor, which files will be asked or searched while logging in with the clientsoftware?

Thanks for all help!!

Best regards
Daniel :-)

[Deepak Extross]

What is the error message the client gets?
The first thing I'd do is verify that an entry exists for this user in the /etc/hosts.equiv or $HOME/.rhosts file.

[Daniel Schneider_3]

Hi,
thank you for your reply.
The error message is only 'unable to login'

I will have a look to this file later.
Any other ideas?

Best Regards
Daniel :-)

[Deepak Extross · Accepted solution]

A simple and quick way to verify is to try any of the 'r' commands - say remsh, rexec or rlogin - from the client machine. If none of them succeed, it suggests that the host equivalence has not been set.

I'd recommend setting it in /etc/hosts.equiv rather than in the users $HOME/.rhosts for security reasons.

HTH.