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Hi,
I would like to remotely execute soffice with different users on a remote machine.
Basically I am connected to the machineA as user John. I would like to execute several soffice to the remote machineB.

The remote machine B has different users R,S on the same group.
I can launch remotely soffice with user R with no problem with the following command:

Code:

remsh machineA -l R -n "nohup soffice -display localhost:1.0 \
-accept='socket,host=127.0.0.1,port=2081;urp;OpenOffice.ServiceManager' \
-norestore  -headless -nofirststartwizard 1>&- 2>& - &"

The admin added a new user recently “usertest”. But I cannot launch soffice with the user “usertest”.
In “.rhosts” I added the line “machineA usertest”.
But when I launch the following command :

Code:

remsh machineA -l usertest -n "nohup soffice -display localhost:1.0 \
-accept='socket,host=127.0.0.1,port=2081;urp;OpenOffice.ServiceManager' \
-norestore  -headless -nofirststartwizard 1>&- 2>& - &"

I got the following error :
I don’t have control on the creation/deletion of users in machineA. What should I ask to the admin of machineA in order to fix this problem ?

Thanks

It should be in machineB that you add the given line in .rhosts:
machineB... in machineA .rhosts
machineA.. in machineB .rhosts
To see if it works correctly I would just do a

Code:

 remsh machineA -l usertest

and modify what is requested till it works before sending anything else...

Hi,

I noticed if i do the following command with new user "usertest"from machineA :

Code:

remsh machineB -l usertest

I am asked for the password like this :

Code:

Password:

In other hand , if I do the same command with user "R" i am not prompted
for the password :

Code:

remsh machineB -l oias904
Last login: Fri Jan 27 08:52:28 from 10.192.41.254

I dont know why the user 'R' is not prompted for the password. I would like to have this functionality for the new user 'usertest' but I dont know what I should do for this.

Btw I added on the $HOME of machineA and machineB the file 'rhosts'.
On the local machineA I added the line on rhosts :
But the previous commands behave the same with this line.

Btw on the remotemachineB the file etc/password contains the following :
Does it explain why there is no prompt ? I dont understand those lines.

Therefore what should I do if i dont want to be prompted for the password with remsh ?

Thanks

It may likely explain: What are the perms on the .rhosts? If usertest cannot read the file, that may well explain why... What about the home directory's perms?
But main question, why was a proper home directory not created for this user, it doesn't take much resource and is fare more safe and customisable... Here it would have to share the same .profile and surely could not have a history file...

Thanks vbe for this quick answer ! You are right : usertest has no permissions to read the file ".rhosts". The home directory of usertest is the same home directory as the other user R.

I guess it is the responsability of the adminstrator to create a home directory for this user ? What do you think ? How can I change the perm on .rhosts for user 'usertest' .

Sorry for the delay, was out of office...
It will depend if you can connect as the owner of the file, and may not be enough depending of OS...
An elegant way but not all OS support is to make the .rhosts file ReadOnly on group and get usertest to be in a common group as the owner: Does oias stand for oracle installer? Could it be possible to get usertest in the group dba for example?
What OS are you using (and version...)

Hi,
Thanks you for your answer on Friday..

The remote machine is "uname -a" :
Linux S248-22 2.4.21-27.ELsmp #1 SMP Wed Dec 1 21:59:02 EST 2004 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

On Friday we created a proper home directory and file ".rhosts" for usertest on the remote machine.
Btw there is no profile for usertest for the moment.Here is the content of ".rhosts" in home directory for usertest :

Furthermore the user "usertest" is in the same group as "oias" according to the administrator.

I still cannot acces to the remote machine from my local machine.
When i Do "remsh machineA -l usertest" from the local machine machineB i am still asked for the password.

What should I do now to fix this issue ?