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From: root@gimli.cs.uct.ac.za (Sandi Donno)
Subject: Re: How to setup .rhosts file so that root can rsh
Message-ID: <root.740129425@gimli>
Sender: news@cs.uct.ac.za (news)
Organization: Computer Science Department, University of Cape Town
References: <1993Jun15.021831.5246@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1993 07:30:25 GMT
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In <1993Jun15.021831.5246@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> smace@nyx.cs.du.edu (Scott Mace) writes:
>How do you setup the .rhosts /etc/hosts.equiv , etc. so that root
>on one machine can rsh [command] without a password. also this
>is needed for rcp. All I get is permission denied.
>I tried putting the local and remote machines names in the /.rhosts ~/.rhosts
>/etc/host.equiv with no luck.
You first have to change /usr/libexec/rlogind to allow root rsh's.
/usr/src/libexec/rlogind/rlogind.c:
do_rlogin(host)
char *host;
{
...
if (pwd->pw_uid == 0)
return(ruserok(host, 1, rusername, lusername));
/* return(-1); */
return(ruserok(host, 0, rusername, lusername));
}
Then, you need to put the root-equivalent machine names in
/root/.rhosts, not /.rhosts.
--
Sandi Donno
sandi@cs.uct.ac.za