Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!uunet!cme!durer!debtron From: debtron@cme.nist.gov (Debbie Nickerson) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs Subject: Re: problem with rsh under PC-NFS Message-ID: Date: 9 Nov 90 16:56:53 GMT References: <551@rome.gdwb.oz.au> Sender: news@cme.nist.gov Distribution: usa Organization: Nat'l Institute of Standards and Technology Lines: 23 In-reply-to: csb@gdwb.oz.au's message of 8 Nov 90 22:13:00 GMT :-):-)Hello again, :-):-)I just want to thank everybody who mailed me and tell them that :-):-)it works fine now since I added the PC:s to the hosts.equiv list. :-)This is a bad idea because if the PC user is able to tell rsh :-)that he is root then the PC user can do whatever he likes. What After reading the hosts.equiv man page, I believe that having the PCs listed in the hosts.equiv list does not allow them to rlogin or rsh as root. Root rsh and rlogin permissions are controlled by the /.rhosts file. Furthermore, I just tried doing an "rsh hostname -l root command", where hostname is one of our hosts and command is of course a unix command. I received the following error: usage: rsh host command The (l) username option doesn't seem to work. Has anyone else had a problem with using the (l) option to rsh? (We have SUN PC-NFS 3.0.1) Debbie Nickerson (301) 975-3552 National Institute of Standards and Technology debtron@cme.nist.gov