rlogin problems

[Lee Abell]

I am trying to rlogin between 2 hp 9000 boxes running 11.0 without passing a password.

hostA is in the /root/.rhosts file on hostB & hostB is in the /root/.rhosts file on hostA.

I have tried putting them in each other's host.equiv files and it makes no difference. It still prompts for a password.

Any thoughts? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

[Helen French]

Hi,

Some points:

1) Which is the HOME directory of root ? If it is '/', then you have to edit /.rhosts
2) Do you have the hostname entries in /etc/hosts file ?
3) Try putting the fully qualified domain name, if you are not.

HTH,
Shiju

[Justo Exposito]

Hi,

The .rhost file must be in the home directory for the users that run rlogin and must have this appearance:

machine user

Regards,

Justo.

[Lee Abell]

1. /root is root's home directory

2. Yes the entries are in the /etc/hosts file

3. The fully qualified host name is already listed as an alias.

Any other thoughts??

[MANOJ SRIVASTAVA]

Hi Paula

Here are the steps to check for .

1. Check that .rhosts file are in the home direcorty of the user. and have thentery as

host user name.

2. The host and the IP address hsould be in the /etc/hosts file .

3. Ofcourse the user names should be the same.

Incase you still ahve probelsm replace the host name in .rhosts file with the IP Adress like say instead of

abc username

change it to:

10.2.10.30 username.


Manoj Srivastava

[S.K. Chan]

Try putting both the fully qualified hostname and just the hostname in .rhosts. For example on my machine I have this in my home dir (.rhosts).

mars.tech.com skchan
mars skchan

[John Carr_2 · Accepted solution]

Hi

I suspect there is some kind of problem translating the hostname to IP address in the .rhosts file. Try putting the IP address in the hosts file if this works then you probably have a problem with your /etc/hosts or DNS or NIS.

John

[Helen French]

Hi,

Some points:

1) Enter both hostname and alias to the .rhosts file.
2) Try putting ip_address instead of hostnames.

HTH,
Shiju

[Roger Baptiste]

hi,

For testing, put the full domain name of the host in the .rhosts file. hostname.domain
and also put the IP address of the host in the .rhosts file. Then, try rlogin. If it works, then the problem is with IP-reverse lookup name resolution.

HTh
raj

[MANOJ SRIVASTAVA]

Hi Paula

Do a nslookup for the other host from one host and see how it resolves the name , whether it does through /etc/hosts or the DNS , a definate clue is to just rename the resolv.conf file and then try doing rlogin.



Manoj Srivastava