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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!zaphod.crihan.fr!jussieu.fr!univ-lyon1.fr!swidir.switch.ch!dxcern!tifrvax.tifr.res.in!bhiksha From: bhiksha@tifrvax.tifr.res.in Subject: NetBSD 0.9, rsh hostname problem... Message-ID: <21JAN94.21002952@tifrvax.tifr.res.in> Sender: news@dxcern.cern.ch (USENET News System) Organization: Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Date: Fri, 21 Jan 1994 21:00:29 GMT Lines: 16 When i do an rsh mymachine I get queried for the password. However when i do rsh localhost It just goes thru. This happens even when i have "mymachine myuserid" in the .rhosts file. Strange, esp because im able to rsh into the machine from OTHER machines in the rhosts file without being queried for the password, only the machine itself. I havent observed this behaviour in any of the other unix systems ive worked on.. Is this a bug? Or some peculiar new feature??? bhiksha