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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!dog.ee.lbl.gov!agate!violet.berkeley.edu!jkh From: jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Rlogin problems Date: 28 Sep 1994 08:26:47 GMT Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 14 Message-ID: <36b9c7$5fd@agate.berkeley.edu> References: <36aeif$6p4@sundog.tiac.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: violet.berkeley.edu In article <36aeif$6p4@sundog.tiac.net>, Brian McGovern <mcgovern@spoon.beta.com> wrote: >I have an interesting problem for you power-FreeBSDers. I have been trying >unsuccessfully to use rlogin and rsh to connect to a remote PC over the >internet. My host is in the remote host's hosts.equiv. Additionally, I >have my home host and user name (ie - spoon.beta.com+mcgovern) in a >.rhosts file in my home directory on the other system. Any reason why >it would give me a Premission denied error and die? Thanks. Try rlogin'ing in with a password and then do a `who am i' - you may find that the incoming hostname is different, or not known, and therefore unable to match your .rhosts.. Jordan