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From: paul@eye.com (Paul B. Booth)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: security, telnet
Message-ID: <1991Jan28.195924.6231@eye.com>
Date: 28 Jan 91 19:59:24 GMT
Reply-To: paul@eye.com (Paul B. Booth)
Organization: 3D/Eye Inc., Ithaca, NY
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Anyone seen this?:  I've got a dn10k wired into a net of hp 9000's.  I'd like
to be able to login to the 10K as root from the net (I'm sysadmin here, so this
is no idle wish :-)).  Seems to be impossible. Telnet takes the root login and
(correct) password and then fails with an "incorrect login" error.  If I'm root
on an hp, and run rlogin, it also fails with the same error.  Oddly enough, I
can do something like "remsh hickory uname -a" (hickory is the nodename of the
10k), but can't do remsh hickory to just get a shell.

What I seem to have todo is to login to the 10k as a "normal" user, then su to
root.  I've checked all the "standard" berkely/arpa config files (hosts,
hosts.equiv, .rhosts, etc.) and they are ok -- identical to what I'm using
successfully on the hp's.  Any ideas?  This is kind of a pain...

Thanks in advance.....
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Paul B. Booth  (paul@eye.com) (...!hplabs!hpfcla!eye!paul)
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