Hi frnz,


I am facing an odd issue with rsh.

I am trying to rsh to a destination workstation from my workstation.
The .rhosts file in the destination is having my hostname.
but when i do rsh i am prompted for the password every time.
I have added my hostname in host.equiv file also in the destination.
Could any body tell me what i need to look into.

.rhosts file should contain,

<hostname> <username>

When you refer to .rhosts do you mean $HOME/.rhosts?

Is the hostname resolveable on the target machine?

In such cases I go with this practice. If I have to rsh w/o a password from nodeA to nodeB,

a) Login to nodeA

traceroute nodeB

It will say "Source should be xx.xx.xx.xx" make a note of that ip address

b) Logon to nodeA

host xx.xx.xx.xx

if it returns a host name, then use that hostname in the .rhosts file of nodeB. If it does not return a hostname, then you will need to either enter the ip address OR add a hosts entry either through a hosts file, DNS or NIS.

You need not enter the username in .rhosts to make it work , just the host name should be enough.

Regards,

Kaps

Please check the permissions (and ownership) of your .rhosts and host.equiv file and post back.

For security purposes, you should look into using ssh instead of rsh. Anyone could log on to your network and spoof the name of the "trusted" host and then have access to your system without being prompted for a password. We just had an audit done against us and we were dinged for this. No more rsh for us.