Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 08:39:15 +0200 (CEST) From: Micke Josefsson <mj@isy.liu.se> To: David Thiel <dthiel@nexprise.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: root login over rsh? Message-ID: <XFMail.000811083915.mj@isy.liu.se> In-Reply-To: <3991E2CF.1F179EFD@nexprise.com>
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On 09-Aug-00 David Thiel wrote: > This will sound like an exceedingly silly question, but how can I allow > root logins over rsh? I want to just do a minimal install and then use > rdist from another machine to put the rest of the stuff there, but sshd > doesn't appear to work with just a minimal install(i.e., there's no > binaries for it). > Apart from leaving aside the security implications, you will have to edit /root/.rhosts in the system you are trying to rsh into: from-machine root This will allow you to connect from the machine 'from-machine' as root. I belive you also can use * (or was it * *?) to allow anything (it would be faster to type:) /Micke ---------------------------------- Michael Josefsson, MSEE mj@isy.liu.se This message was sent by XFMail running on FreeBSD 3.5-STABLE ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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