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From: zdenko@katzo.rice.edu (zdenko tomasic)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mips
Subject: Re: Using rsh/rlogin to log in to a Mips RC2030
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Date: 27 Apr 91 22:33:42 GMT
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In article <8800@idunno.Princeton.EDU> vishy@catinhat.Princeton.EDU (V. Visweswaran) writes:
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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. 
>
>								

Make sure your host name is fully qualified in /etc/hosts.equiv (e.g. myhost.here.whatever rather than just myhost)
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