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From: jik@athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: rsh command
Message-ID: <1991Feb14.200029.17123@athena.mit.edu>
Date: 14 Feb 91 20:00:29 GMT
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In article <26006@adm.brl.mil>, cherman@cmvax.umiacs.umd.edu (Charles Herman) writes:
|> [problems getting .rhosts to work]

  Someone else has already pointed out that you should try various
permutations of your hostname in the .rhosts file.

  The other thing you should make sure of is that the .rhosts file is owned by
you *and* does not have read or write permission set for group or world (so
you should probably chmod it to 600).  Many versions of rlogin, rsh, etc.
check for group/world read/write permission and won't use the .rhosts file if
any of them are enabled.

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