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From: cca13@seq1.keele.ac.uk (G.D. Pratt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sequent,comp.protocols.nfs
Subject: .rhosts problem with NFS mounted home directory - is it real?
Keywords: NFS rsh rlogin passwd .rhosts
Message-ID: <343@keele.keele.ac.uk>
Date: 7 Jun 90 09:52:06 GMT
Organization: University of Keele, England
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I have a weird problem with setting up .rhosts files in users
home directories so that they can do remote shells and rlogins
without password. The setup is:

- Sun 3/50s running SunOS 3.5
- Sequent Symmetry running DYNIX(R) V3.0.15 NFS #4
- users home directories on the Sequent are NFS mounted on the Suns
  from /etc/fstab as:

	seq1:/u2 /u2 nfs rw,hard,retrans=6,bg,noquota 0 0

- when users have a valid .rhosts file in their home directory
  thet get "Permission denied" for "rsh" and need to give a password
  for "rlogins"

- other users, ie ME, have their home directory on the suns - which is
  NFS mounted off a Sun 3/180 server. With the same information in the
  .rhosts file I can do "rsh" and "rlogin" with no problem.

When I contacted Sun a while ago about they (reasonably) were not
very enthusiastic about giving a definative answer since another
manufacture was involved. Someone else here said they that the "stat" call
was failing - ie at the time of the "rsh" or "rlogin" call the ".rhosts"
file didn't appear to be there.

any help/suggestions/RTFMs welcome

cheers,
gerry
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gerry pratt - workstation support - university of keele
email: cca13@uk.ac.keele.seq1 * tel: 0782 621111 x 3290