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I am using rsh and other R commands to login to a machine.
On that target machine, I set up $HOME/.rhosts file with the host/password.
I also setup /etc/hosts.equiv fiel with IP address/username.
I also made sure that rsh was enabled and that no firewall was running.
The /etc/hosts on both machines has the correct IP/hostname info for all machines involved.

Well, when I try to rlogin, it prompts me for the password. Why is this happening?
When I give it the password, it fails to authenticate and after several attempts, kicks me out of the rsh program.


The source system is Solaris 8 with default rsh, the target system is Linux RedHat Advanced Server 2.1.

That should be host and username. also check your /etc/hosts.allow & /etc/hosts.allow.

Strange. The following worked a few times but then stopped. It only worked as a regular user, but not as root.

rsh <target_IP> -l <login> <command>

Nothing seems to have changed.... although logic suggest something must have.

Anyway, even after putting the IP address into /etc/hosts.allow, I still get the error message: Permission denied. If I omit the command, it asks for a password.

If it didnt work for root, then root is not in the .rhosts file on the remote system. Can you verify this?

Yes, the /root/.rhosts file is there.

I tried going there as root and as a regular user (which too has the .rhosts file) and in both cases, get "Permission denied".

My rhosts file on the target machine looks like this:

<source_host_name_IP_address>

Can you postexactly what you have, but for your own sake replace the numbers of the ip address with X's and the letters in the hostname with Y's?

I got a regular user to work with rsh... I think it was a DNS problem where an IP address was not resolving.

I cannot get root to rsh no matter what I do, even if I put "+" in /.rhosts file.

How do I get root to rsh?