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From: brian@shift.utell.net (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: "ppp -alias" and rlogin permissions?
Date: 13 May 1997 09:36:48 GMT
Organization: Awfulhak Ltd.
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In article <86u3kawxa4.fsf@bitbox.follo.net>,
Eivind Eklund <perhaps@yes.no> writes:
> In article <d2ohajsbe1.fsf@erlang.ericsson.se> Kent Boortz <kent@erlang.ericsson.se> writes:
>
>>
>>
>> I have ppp and IP nat/aliasing/masquerading working but I'm puzzled by
>> a small problem. I have the same user ID on the remote and local
>> machine. When I connect with "ppp" I can directly do a "rlogin
>> remotehostname" but when I connect with "ppp -alias" and try to do a
>> "rlogin" I get a "rlogind: Permission denied.". I can still do
>> telnet/ftp/whatever but not "rlogin"!?
>>
>> Is this the way it is supposed to be? If not, what can I do to find
>> the problem and solve it?
>
> The problem is that RPC needs to be run from port 20, and -alias
> change the port numbers by default. The latest version of
> PPP+pktAlias handles this, and will likely be integrated in FreeBSD
> -current reasonably soon. Until then, download it from
> http://www.srv.net/~cmott/
>
> I don't remember whether I enabled the mapping of the port to the same
> values as default; check the README.alias file.
The natd port (version 1.4) does this nicely too (it uses a more
recent version of the alias code). Check the man page.
> Eivind.
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Brian <brian@awfulhak.org> <brian@freebsd.org>
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