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# 1  
Old 11-09-2011
OSX 10.7 and rsh
Hi Guys

What do i need to change so that anyone can rsh into the machine, i am sure it is in the pam.d/rshd buti am hving and issue wiith it,
at the moment only someone who has a pysical account on the machine can rsh in

even with all the users in the passwd file it does not work

thanks

Adam
# 2  
Old 01-17-2012
Can you give use what is going wrong with it?
# 3  
Old 01-18-2012
So, by "anyone" are you referring to user accounts maintained on a directory server, or are you referring to random strangers?

LDAP service would work, but your target machine would need to be bound to that LDAP service.

If you are talking about any random stranger, you would need a mechanism to request user specific information, check that it doesn't already exist, and create an account for the user to log into after success...
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