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From: farhad@CS.Stanford.EDU (Farhad Shakeri)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: rshd in Ultrix 4.2
Message-ID: <1991Jun25.220603.16081@neon.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 25 Jun 91 22:06:03 GMT
Article-I.D.: neon.1991Jun25.220603.16081
References: <1991Jun25.171431.20459@neon.Stanford.EDU> <MELLON.91Jun25142201@nigiri.pa.dec.com>
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In article <MELLON.91Jun25142201@nigiri.pa.dec.com>, mellon@nigiri.pa.dec.com (Ted Lemon) writes:
|> 
|> >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_


Yapp, it works fine now.  

I do not know if the info was neglected because my manuals have 
not arrived yet!


Thanks alot!

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