Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!olivea!decwrl!pa.dec.com!granite.pa.dec.com!mellon From: mellon@nigiri.pa.dec.com (Ted Lemon) Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix Subject: Re: rshd in Ultrix 4.2 Message-ID: Date: 25 Jun 91 21:22:01 GMT References: <1991Jun25.171431.20459@neon.Stanford.EDU> Sender: news@pa.dec.com (News) Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation Lines: 18 In-Reply-To: farhad@CS.Stanford.EDU's message of 25 Jun 91 17:14:31 GMT >When I try to execute a command like "rsh machine ls " , >I always get "Permission denied.", but rlogin works fine. >If I grabe the rshd from Ultrix 4.1 then everything is fine. I've had a similar problem. I don't know if this is the same problem you're experiencing, but you might want to try it. The problem is that the ruserok() function has been hacked in 4.2 to allow kerberos authentication as well as the old .rhosts authentication. In doing this, a bug was introduced that requires that all the hostnames in /etc/resolv.conf also appear in /etc/hosts - otherwise, the authentication fails, even though BIND service is generally functional. I thought that this was going to be mentioned in the release notes - did they neglect to include this information? _MelloN_