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From: reilly@scotty.dccs.upenn.edu (G B Reilly)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun
Subject: Root login using rlogin to a 386i
Keywords: 386i
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Date: 29 Apr 89 23:29:35 GMT
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A colleague of mine insists upon being able to rlogin as root into his Sun
386i.  Is there some clean way to support this.  Comments on how dumb this
is are not welcome as the machine is on a closed network.

[[ Not quite sure what you are asking here.  From a Sun 3 running 4.0.x to
another Unix machine, it's "rlogin -l root machine".  From any other
BSD-derived machine, it's "rlogin machine -l root".  But you still have to
type the password once the connection is established.  Is there a problem
with this approach when going to a 386i?  Or does he want to do this
without having to type a password?  If the latter, then changes can be
made to /.rhosts on the 386i to accomodate him.  --wnl ]]