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From: jabarby@sun5.vlsi.waterloo.edu (J.A. Barby)
Subject: Re: Using rsh/rlogin to log in to a Mips RC2030
Message-ID: <1991Apr27.222006.459@vlsi.waterloo.edu>
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Date: Sat, 27 Apr 1991 22:20:06 GMT
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In article <8800@idunno.Princeton.EDU>, vishy@catinhat.Princeton.EDU (V. Visweswaran) writes:
> 
> 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.

You need to have two version of the hostname in your ~/.rhosts file, the
fully qualified name followed by the unqualified name.  eg
vlsi.waterloo.edu jabarby
vlsi jabarby
-- 
	Jim Barby  (U of Waterloo VLSI Group, Waterloo Ont.)
	jabarby@vlsi.waterloo.{edu,bitnet}
	jabarby@vlsi.UWaterloo.ca