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From: roy@alanine.phri.nyu.edu (Roy Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: rlogin demands password: the answer
Message-ID: <1991Jun12.193711.17567@phri.nyu.edu>
Date: 12 Jun 91 19:37:11 GMT
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Organization: Public Health Research Institute, New York City
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	A few days ago, I asked why my MtXinu 4.3BSD/NFS vax had suddenly
started demanding passwords for rlogins.  The answer turned out to be the
new /etc/hosts file I had just installed.  The host I was rlogging-in from
had an entry in /etc/hosts which listed the fully qualified domain name
first, but /etc/hosts.equiv just had the first (least significant) part.
Changing /etc/hosts to have the simple name first solved the problem.  I
would guess that changing /etc/hosts.equiv to have the FQDN would have
worked too.
--
Roy Smith, Public Health Research Institute
455 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016
roy@alanine.phri.nyu.edu -OR- {att,cmcl2,rutgers,hombre}!phri!roy
"Arcane?  Did you say arcane?  It wouldn't be Unix if it wasn't arcane!"