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From: subbarao@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Kartik Subbarao)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: rsh command
Message-ID: <6264@idunno.Princeton.EDU>
Date: 14 Feb 91 14:14:13 GMT
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In article <26006@adm.brl.mil> cherman@cmvax.umiacs.umd.edu (Charles Herman) writes:
>
>	When I try to do an rsh to issue a command to a remote host I get a
>"Permission denied" response.  The method I used is the following.  I created
>a .rhosts file in the remote machine's home directory containing 
>
><local host name> <local login name>
>
>(<local host name> refers to the machine from which I issue the rsh).
>
>From the local host I type
>
>rsh <remote host name> -l <remote login name> <command>.
>

Sometimes you need FQDNs. Try putting:

localhostname.localhostdomainname localloginname

into your .rhosts and retry.

Also - is the remote host in your hosts table (can it be found?)

			-Kartik
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