Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!helios!cs.tamu.edu!ronniek From: ronniek@cs.tamu.edu (Ronnie Killough) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: rhosts Message-ID: <4650@helios.TAMU.EDU> Date: 23 Mar 90 19:40:09 GMT Sender: usenet@helios.TAMU.EDU Reply-To: ronniek@cs.tamu.edu (Ronnie Killough) Distribution: usa Organization: Computer Science Department, Texas A&M University Lines: 15 I want to be able to rlogin, as root, to any of our NeXT machines, without specifying a password. On our normal Unix machines, we just place the hostname of the 'administation' machine in each machine's /.rhosts file. When I try this on the NeXT, and rlogin as root, it says Login incorrect Connection closed. Does anyone know why? Ronnie Killough ronniek@cssun.tamu.edu