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From: vishy@catinhat.Princeton.EDU (V. Visweswaran)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mips
Subject: Using rsh/rlogin to log in to a Mips RC2030
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Date: 27 Apr 91 17:37:08 GMT
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I have been trying to use rsh or rlogin from a Sun-4 to log on to our Mips RC2030 . 
The problem is that  it always prompts me for a password. I have the name of the
remote host in my  .rhosts file, but this does not seem to work .  
 Similarly, I cannot use rcp from the remote host to  end something to the Mips  box.  
However, rdist works from the other machine to the mips box. 

Is there any way to get the mips machine to accept the remote login from other machines
without prompting for a password (apart from setting up  the remote host name in 
/etc/hosts.equiv) or is this not possible? Thanks in advance.